{"id":66636,"date":"2026-07-17T11:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66636"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:40:48","slug":"water-woes-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66636","title":{"rendered":"Water Woes In The Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66637\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Desertification_Of_Turkey.jpg\" alt=\"Desertification Of Turkey\" width=\"1290\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Desertification_Of_Turkey.jpg 1290w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Desertification_Of_Turkey-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Desertification_Of_Turkey-1024x572.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Desertification_Of_Turkey-768x429.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click to view the video:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zRtOFKpvXOA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zRtOFKpvXOA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to view the video:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zRtOFKpvXOA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66638,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66636\/revisions\/66638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}