{"id":955,"date":"2011-09-17T11:56:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T06:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=955"},"modified":"2011-09-17T11:57:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T06:57:32","slug":"did-you-know-facts-and-figures-about-the-impacts-of-water-use-on-water-systems-and-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"Did you know&#8230;? Facts and figures about the impacts of water use on water systems and the environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>On average freshwater species populations were reduced by half between 1970 and 2005, a sharper decline than for other biomes.<\/li>\n<li>As of 2000 there were more than 50,000 large dams in operation.<\/li>\n<li>Some 589 large dams were built in Asia from 1999 to 2001.<\/li>\n<li>Of the world\u2019s 292 largest river systems in 2005 (accounting for 60% of the world\u2019s runoff), more than a third (105) were considered to be strongly affected by fragmentation, and 68 moderately affected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/did-you-know.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-956 colorbox-955\" title=\"did-you-know\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/did-you-know-300x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/did-you-know-300x288.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/did-you-know.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The section &#8220;Did You Know\u2026?&#8221; is taken from the 3rd World Water Development Report &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/water\/wwap\/wwdr\/wwdr3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Water in a Changing World<\/a>&#8220;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/water\/news\/newsletter\/254.shtml#know\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On average freshwater species populations were reduced by half between 1970 and 2005, a sharper decline than for other biomes. As of 2000 there were more than 50,000 large dams in operation. Some 589 large dams were built in Asia from 1999 to 2001. Of the world\u2019s 292 largest river systems in 2005 (accounting for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955"}],"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=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}