{"id":134219,"date":"2025-08-08T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134219"},"modified":"2025-08-08T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:00:07","slug":"chinas-water-paradox-rainfall-drenches-big-cities-while-river-run-off-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134219","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s water paradox: rainfall drenches big cities while river run-off drops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeijing and surrounding areas may have been engulfed in deadly torrential downpours in the past fortnight but a new study reveals a longer-term drying trend for the country\u2019s major rivers.<br \/>\nNew research shows that despite many Chinese cities increasingly being hit by extreme rainfall, the volume of water in China\u2019s rivers has fallen over 60 years, particularly in the country\u2019s north.<br \/>\nThe researchers found that from 1956 to 2016, some 756 \u2013 or 72 per cent \u2013 of the 1,046 hydrological stations in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3321243\/chinas-water-paradox-rainfall-drenches-big-cities-while-river-run-drops?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeijing and surrounding areas may have been engulfed in deadly torrential downpours in the past fortnight but a new study reveals a longer-term drying&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134219"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}