{"id":39814,"date":"2019-06-21T06:22:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T06:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39814"},"modified":"2019-06-21T06:22:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T06:22:18","slug":"more-than-500-arrested-after-protests-and-clashes-as-india-water-crisis-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39814","title":{"rendered":"More than 500 arrested after protests and clashes as India water crisis worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi (CNN)<\/cite>Millions of people are <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/06\/19\/india\/chennai-water-crisis-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">running out of usable water in the southern Indian city of Chennai<\/a>, which is experiencing major droughts and a rapidly worsening water crisis. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">At least 550 people were arrested Wednesday in the city of Coimbatore for protesting with empty water containers in front of the municipal government&#8217;s headquarters, accusing officials of negligence and mismanagement. Meanwhile, four reservoirs that supply Chennai, the state capital and India&#8217;s sixth largest city, have run nearly dry.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Lake Puzhal, the city&#8217;s largest, is the large body of water in the satellite image from Maxar below. On June 15, 2018, it was full of blue water.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi (CNN)Millions of people are running out of usable water in the southern Indian city of Chennai, which is experiencing major droughts and a rapidly worsening water crisis. At least 550 people were arrested Wednesday in the city of Coimbatore for protesting with empty water containers in front of the municipal government&#8217;s headquarters, accusing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39814","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\/39814","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=39814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}