{"id":19308,"date":"2018-10-21T17:22:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T17:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19308"},"modified":"2018-10-21T17:22:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T17:22:52","slug":"massive-dam-threatens-egypts-part-of-nile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19308","title":{"rendered":"Massive dam threatens Egypt&#8217;s part of Nile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Look at Egypt on Google Earth and you will see a green line snaking through a sand-colored landscape, fanning out into a triangle in the north. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">This emerald ribbon is the vegetation that grows on either side of the Nile River and around its delta. It is Egypt&#8217;s only fertile land &#8212; and testament to the country&#8217;s reliance on this fabled waterway.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Nile River Basin extends to <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-the-11-countries-that-rely-on-the-nile-need-to-reach-a-river-deal-soon-75868\" target=\"_blank\">11 African countries<\/a>, but Egypt &#8212; one of the oldest civilizations in the world &#8212; has controlled the river and used the lion&#8217;s share of its waters for millennia. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Look at Egypt on Google Earth and you will see a green line snaking through a sand-colored landscape, fanning out into a triangle in the north. This emerald ribbon is the vegetation that grows on either side of the Nile River and around its delta. It is Egypt&#8217;s only fertile land &#8212; and testament to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}