{"id":15015,"date":"2018-03-22T08:41:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T15:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=15015"},"modified":"2018-03-22T08:41:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T15:41:15","slug":"world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"World Water Day: UN report indicates nearly six-billion people may suffer from water shortages by 2050 – from Marketwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"

Arid conditions threaten coastal Cape Town, South Africa.<\/p><\/div>\n

NOTE – Today is World Water Day<\/a>, an annual observance highlighting the need for freshwater and to\u00a0advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. CDFA’s SWEEP program<\/a> helps in that regard by making grants available to farmers and ranchers for efficient irrigation projects.\u00a0 Over the life of the program 31 billion gallons of water have been conserved, enough to fill nearly 47,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

By Ciara Linnane<\/strong><\/p>\n

Residents of Cape Town, South Africa, are bracing for Day Zero.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the day that the city of 4 million\u2019s municipal water supply will be cut off for most households and businesses, an unprecedented measure aimed at preserving water after a severe drought that has emptied reservoirs.<\/p>\n

Since February, the city\u2019s residents have lived with restrictions of 13.2 gallons of water a day per person, or roughly enough for a brief shower and three toilet flushes, as\u00a0the Wall Street Journal has reported.<\/a>\u00a0Once Day Zero arrives, recently moved back to 2019 from July 9, 2018, residents will be forced to line up at collection points secured by the military.<\/p>\n

Experts say this dystopian scene could be played out in other major cities in the coming years, as demand for water continues to increase with population growth and as climate change makes already-dry regions still dryer.<\/p>\n

Roughly 3.6 billion people, or nearly half the current global population, live in areas that suffer water shortages for at least one month a year, according to the\u00a0United Nations World Water Development report for 2018.<\/a>\u00a0By 2050, that number is expected to grow to almost 6 billion, according to the authors of the newly published report. The world\u2019s population is expected to increase to about 10 billion by 2050.<\/p>\n

Global demand for water has been growing at about 1% a year but is forecast to increase much more dramatically in the next two decades, with industrial and consumer demand growing faster than agriculture, although that sector will still consume the most.<\/p>\n

At the same time, flooding and drought risk will also rise. The number of people at risk from floods is expected to climb to 1.6 billion in 2050 from 1.2 billion today.<\/p>\n

The authors of the report emphasize that the water crisis could be averted using nature-based solutions, or NBS, systems that use or imitate natural processes to enhance water availability. That means a shift away human-built infrastructure and water-supply systems.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe stakes are high,\u201d said Audrey Azoulay, director general of Unesco, which commissioned the report. \u201cCurrent trends suggest that around two-thirds of forests and wetlands have been lost or degraded since the beginning of the 20th century. Soil is eroding and deteriorating in quality. Since the 1990s, water pollution has worsened in almost all rivers in Africa, Asia and Latin America.\u201d<\/p>\n

The increased risk of flood or drought has a big impact on our ability to deal with and adapt to climate change, said Azoulay. \u201cWe know also that water scarcity can lead to civil unrest, mass migration, and even to conflict within and between countries,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

There are different kinds of NBS, that range from the personal \u2014 a dry toilet \u2014 to applications that include conservation agriculture to minimize soil disturbance, maintain soil cover and regularize crop rotation. There are also NBS that could be used in urban areas, including green buildings, green walls, roof gardens and vegetated infiltration or drainage systems, landscape restoration, or even systems that improve the performance of built infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Adopting NBS does not necessarily mean spending more money, but such efforts will require the redirection of funds and resources toward green infrastructure. The emerging green bond market is one example that also has the benefit of showing that NBS can perform well when measured against more traditional investments, said the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cTransforming agricultural policy represents a significant pathway for financing the further uptake of NBS,\u201d said the report. \u201cThis requires overcoming the fact that the vast majority of agricultural subsidies, and probably the majority of public funding and almost all private-sector investment in agricultural research and development, support the intensification of conventional agricultural, which increases water insecurity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Water management has become an increasing priority for public companies, according to\u00a0a recent report by sustainability nonprofit Ceres<\/a>\u00a0that sought to measure the progress made by more than 600 of the biggest listed companies in the U.S. in meeting environmental and cultural goals.<\/p>\n

The report found that 81% of companies in industries that require relatively large amounts of water \u2014 for example, the manufacturers of food and beverages, clothing and semiconductors \u2014 have water programs in place, but just 37% of them have set targets for prioritizing action in areas that pose the greatest risk to water resources.<\/p>\n

Food companies had made the most progress, with 95% showing quantifiable goals for water use, according to Ceres.<\/p>\n

Link to story\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NOTE – Today is World Water Day, an annual observance highlighting the need for freshwater and to\u00a0advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. CDFA’s SWEEP program helps in that regard by making grants available to farmers and ranchers for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\r\nWorld Water Day: UN report indicates nearly six-billion people may suffer from water shortages by 2050 - from Marketwatch - CDFA's Planting Seeds Blog<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World Water Day: UN report indicates nearly six-billion people may suffer from water shortages by 2050 - from Marketwatch - CDFA's Planting Seeds Blog\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NOTE – Today is World Water Day, an annual observance highlighting the need for freshwater and to\u00a0advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. CDFA’s SWEEP program helps in that regard by making grants available to farmers and ranchers for … Continue reading →\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CDFA's Planting Seeds Blog\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-03-22T15:41:15+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cape-town.jpg\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"384\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Office of Public Affairs\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Office of Public Affairs\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Office of Public Affairs\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#\/schema\/person\/abce383c670223ef4f55f3f21f102e76\"},\"headline\":\"World Water Day: UN report indicates nearly six-billion people may suffer from water shortages by 2050 – from Marketwatch\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-03-22T15:41:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/\"},\"wordCount\":817,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cape-town.jpg\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/\",\"name\":\"World Water Day: UN report indicates nearly six-billion people may suffer from water shortages by 2050 - from Marketwatch - CDFA's Planting Seeds Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cape-town.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-03-22T15:41:15+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cape-town.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cape-town.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":384,\"caption\":\"Arid conditions threaten coastal cCpe Town, South Africa.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"World Water Day: UN report indicates nearly six-billion people may suffer from water shortages by 2050 – from Marketwatch\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/\",\"name\":\"CDFA's Planting Seeds Blog\",\"description\":\"Making California a better place to live because of what we grow and how we grow it.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#organization\",\"name\":\"CDFA's Planting Seeds Blog\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CDFA-logo-horizontal-hi-res-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CDFA-logo-horizontal-hi-res-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":585,\"caption\":\"CDFA's Planting Seeds Blog\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#\/schema\/person\/abce383c670223ef4f55f3f21f102e76\",\"name\":\"Office of Public Affairs\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/publicaffairs\/\"}]}<\/script>\r\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"World Water Day: UN report indicates nearly six-billion people may suffer from water shortages by 2050 - from Marketwatch - CDFA's Planting Seeds Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"World Water Day: UN report indicates nearly six-billion people may suffer from water shortages by 2050 - from Marketwatch - CDFA's Planting Seeds Blog","og_description":"NOTE – Today is World Water Day, an annual observance highlighting the need for freshwater and to\u00a0advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. CDFA’s SWEEP program helps in that regard by making grants available to farmers and ranchers for … Continue reading →","og_url":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/","og_site_name":"CDFA's Planting Seeds Blog","article_published_time":"2018-03-22T15:41:15+00:00","og_image":[{"width":640,"height":384,"url":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cape-town.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Office of Public Affairs","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Office of Public Affairs","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/"},"author":{"name":"Office of Public Affairs","@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#\/schema\/person\/abce383c670223ef4f55f3f21f102e76"},"headline":"World Water Day: UN report indicates nearly six-billion people may suffer from water shortages by 2050 – from Marketwatch","datePublished":"2018-03-22T15:41:15+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/"},"wordCount":817,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cape-town.jpg","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/","url":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/","name":"World Water Day: UN report indicates nearly six-billion people may suffer from water shortages by 2050 - from Marketwatch - CDFA's Planting Seeds Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cape-town.jpg","datePublished":"2018-03-22T15:41:15+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cape-town.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cape-town.jpg","width":640,"height":384,"caption":"Arid conditions threaten coastal cCpe Town, South Africa."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/world-water-day-un-report-indicates-nearly-six-billion-people-may-suffer-from-water-shortages-by-2050-from-marketwatch\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"World Water Day: UN report indicates nearly six-billion people may suffer from water shortages by 2050 – from Marketwatch"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#website","url":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/","name":"CDFA's Planting Seeds Blog","description":"Making California a better place to live because of what we grow and how we grow it.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#organization","name":"CDFA's Planting Seeds Blog","url":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CDFA-logo-horizontal-hi-res-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CDFA-logo-horizontal-hi-res-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":585,"caption":"CDFA's Planting Seeds Blog"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#\/schema\/person\/abce383c670223ef4f55f3f21f102e76","name":"Office of Public Affairs","url":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/publicaffairs\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2eYDv-3Ub","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15020,"href":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15015\/revisions\/15020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}