{"id":648,"date":"2011-04-22T16:48:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T11:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=648"},"modified":"2011-04-22T16:50:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T11:50:26","slug":"did-you-know-facts-and-figures-about-water-and-cities-part-1-in-honor-of-the-upcoming-world-water-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"Did you know&#8230;? Facts and figures about water and cities (part 1) in honor of the upcoming World Water Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/unwwwd11englishlogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-649 colorbox-648\" title=\"unwwwd11englishlogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/unwwwd11englishlogo-300x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/unwwwd11englishlogo-300x288.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/unwwwd11englishlogo.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Half of humanity now lives in cities and, within two decades, nearly 60% of the world\u2019s population -5 billion people- will be urban dwellers.<\/li>\n<li>Urban growth is most rapid in the developing world, where cities gain an average of 5 million residents every month.<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>The exploding urban population growth creates unprecedented challenges, among which provision for water and sanitation have been the most pressing and painfully felt when lacking.<\/li>\n<li>The relationship between water and cities is crucial. Cities require a very large input of freshwater and in turn have a huge impact on freshwater systems.<\/li>\n<li>Cities cannot be sustainable without ensuring reliable access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The section &#8220;Did You Know\u2026?&#8221; is taken from the UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC) publication &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/waterforlifedecade\/swm_cities_zaragoza_2010\/pdf\/facts_and_figures_long_final_eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Water and Cities: Facts and Figures<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half of humanity now lives in cities and, within two decades, nearly 60% of the world\u2019s population -5 billion people- will be urban dwellers. Urban growth is most rapid in the developing world, where cities gain an average of 5 million residents every month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[45],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}