{"id":245,"date":"2019-08-09T13:23:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T20:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/?p=245"},"modified":"2019-09-02T12:49:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T19:49:28","slug":"arizona-one-of-handful-of-states-at-risk-of-extreme-water-stress-as-global-temperatures-rise-new-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Arizona one of handful of states at risk of extreme water stress as global temperatures rise, new study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cA handful of US states \u2013 including&nbsp;New Mexico&nbsp;and&nbsp;California&nbsp;\u2013 are facing significant strains on their&nbsp;water&nbsp;supplies that will only intensify with&nbsp;global heating, according to new rankings,\u201d the<em> Guardian<\/em> reported this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Mexico tops the list and is the only state with\n\u201cextremely high\u201d pressures on its water availability. The state\u2019s score is on\npar with the&nbsp;United Arab Emirates&nbsp;in the&nbsp;Middle East&nbsp;and&nbsp;Eritrea&nbsp;in&nbsp;Africa,\nthe World Resources Institute (WRI)&nbsp;found. California ranks second,\nfollowed by&nbsp;Arizona,&nbsp;Colorado&nbsp;and&nbsp;Nebraska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018We\u2019re stretching our water supply pretty much as far as it\ncan go\u2026and even further,\u2019 said Leah Schleifer, a spokeswoman for WRI\u2019s water\nprogram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts with WRI said the data shows a global water crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018The picture is alarming in many places around the globe, but it\u2019s very important to note that water stress is not destiny,\u2019 said Betsy Otto, WRI\u2019s global water director. \u2018What we can\u2019t afford to do any longer is pretend that the situation will resolve itself.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/aug\/06\/us-states-water-stress-new-mexico-california-arizona-colorado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read the story here (opens in a new tab)\">Read the story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA handful of US states \u2013 including&nbsp;New Mexico&nbsp;and&nbsp;California&nbsp;\u2013 are facing significant strains on their&nbsp;water&nbsp;supplies that will only intensify with&nbsp;global heating, according to new rankings,\u201d the Guardian reported this week. New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}