{"id":5302,"date":"2019-09-13T11:33:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T08:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5302"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","slug":"boreholes-quench-turkana-thirst-as-aquifers-remain-undeveloped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/13\/boreholes-quench-turkana-thirst-as-aquifers-remain-undeveloped\/","title":{"rendered":"Boreholes Quench Turkana Thirst As Aquifers Remain Undeveloped"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By Annie Njanja<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Water\nis a precious resource, whose scarcity has seen thousands of people and animals\naround Africa perish.<br>\nThe United Nations (UN) reports that about 800 million people in sub-Sahara\nAfrica live in a water-scarce environment \u2014 meaning that they have less than\n1,000 cubic metres per capita per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In\nrelation, the UN says, 115 people in Africa die every hour from diseases linked\nto poor sanitation, hygiene and contaminated water\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/datahub\/Boreholes-quench-Turkana-thirst-as-aquifers-remain-undeveloped\/3815418-5270432-qa5pdn\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Annie Njanja Water is a precious resource, whose scarcity has seen thousands of people and animals around Africa perish. The United Nations (UN) reports that about 800 million people&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}