{"id":230181,"date":"2026-08-11T06:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/what-is-the-eu-doing-to-tackle-its-growing-water-scarcity\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T06:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:49:10","slug":"what-is-the-eu-doing-to-tackle-its-growing-water-scarcity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/what-is-the-eu-doing-to-tackle-its-growing-water-scarcity\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the EU doing to tackle its growing water scarcity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer&#8217;s record heat has left 38 percent of Europe&#8217;s land in drought. Overuse, mismanagement, and pollution have harmed lakes and rivers and worsened Europe\u2019s water stress, prompting the EU to treat water scarcity as a major emergency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/08\/11\/what-is-the-eu-doing-to-tackle-its-growing-water-scarcity\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer&#8217;s record heat has left 38 percent of Europe&#8217;s land in drought. Overuse, mismanagement, and pollution have harmed lakes and rivers and worsened Europe\u2019s water stress, prompting the EU to treat water scarcity as a major emergency. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":230182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}