{"id":11528,"date":"2022-07-15T19:43:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T19:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/11528\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T14:59:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:59:45","slug":"struggling-to-keep-the-taps-on-lebanons-water-crisis-continues-to-put-children-at-risk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/11528\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggling to keep the taps on Lebanon\u2019s water crisis continues to put children at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon\u2019s unprecedented socio-economic crisis has left millions of people \ufb01ghting for survival and devastated critical infrastructure, including water and sanitation, putting the health and future of the country\u2019s children at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Rising global oil prices have further worsened an economic meltdown that was already compounded by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of the 2020 Beirut explosions.<\/p>\n<p>For the more than 80 per cent of the population who live below the poverty line, the overlapping crises mean a daily struggle not only to put food on the table, but also to ensure their families have suf\ufb01cient clean water.<\/p>\n<p>The water sector itself has barely managed to stay a\ufb02oat, and water supply systems remain on the brink, with prospects for a solution looking bleak as the limited power supply makes it impossible to pump suf\ufb01cient water, and in some cases causes water pumping operations to shut down entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Source:Unicef<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon\u2019s unprecedented socio-economic crisis has left millions of people \ufb01ghting for survival and devastated critical infrastructure, including water and sanitation, putting the health and future of the country\u2019s children at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289,15],"tags":[103,188,187],"class_list":["post-11528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-stories-news","tag-beirut-lebanon","tag-childprotection-2","tag-childrens_rights-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11530,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11528\/revisions\/11530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}