{"id":19720,"date":"2018-10-25T01:22:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T01:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19720"},"modified":"2018-10-25T01:22:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T01:22:14","slug":"iraq-basra-water-pollution-risks-triggering-disease-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19720","title":{"rendered":"Iraq: Basra water pollution risks triggering disease outbreaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"66\">\n<p>Doctors in the southern Iraqi city of Basra are worried that diseases like cholera and diarrhoea might spread through the city&#8217;s unuseable water supply.<\/p>\n<p>Basra&#8217;s canals are blocked by piles of rubbish and its sanitation system has collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian Refugee Council has warned that nearly 280,000 children could be affected by diarrhoea and rashes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Rob Matheson reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors in the southern Iraqi city of Basra are worried that diseases like cholera and diarrhoea might spread through the city&#8217;s unuseable water supply. Basra&#8217;s canals are blocked by piles of rubbish and its sanitation system has collapsed. The Norwegian Refugee Council has warned that nearly 280,000 children could be affected by diarrhoea and rashes.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19720","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=19720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}