{"id":42821,"date":"2026-01-27T05:12:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=42821"},"modified":"2026-01-27T05:12:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:12:53","slug":"has-the-world-entered-an-era-of-water-bankruptcy-podcast-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=42821","title":{"rendered":"Has the world entered an era of \u2018water bankruptcy\u2019? \u2013 podcast | Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a UN report declared that the world has entered an era of \u2018global water bankruptcy\u2019 with many human water systems past the point at which they can be restored to former levels. To find out what this could look like, Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian\u2019s diplomatic editor, Patrick Wintour, who has been reporting on Iran\u2019s severe water crisis. And Mohammad Shamsudduha, professor of water crisis and risk reduction in the department of risk and disaster reduction at University College London, explains how the present situation arose and what can be done to bring water supplies back from the brink<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a UN report declared that the world has entered an era of \u2018global water bankruptcy\u2019 with many human water systems past the point at which they can be restored to former levels. To find out what this could look like, Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian\u2019s diplomatic editor, Patrick Wintour, who has been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1465,8644,6338,515,516,1183,550],"class_list":{"0":"post-42821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-bankruptcy","9":"tag-entered","10":"tag-era","11":"tag-podcast","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-water","14":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}