{"id":10696,"date":"2015-05-27T16:47:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T23:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/floods-and-droughts\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T04:20:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T11:20:29","slug":"floods-and-droughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/floods-and-droughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Floods and droughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>It doesn&#8217;t appear the weather will revert to what we&#8217;ve known in the past, so it&#8217;s best to plan accordingly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>We&#8217;ve spent billions on outer space when the money is desperately needed right here on planet Earth. The flood waters back east are wasted by allowing it to run into the sea. California is the nation&#8217;s highest crop producer but can&#8217;t continue much longer after four years of drought.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Nothing will change unless we change it. Floodwaters should be diverted to where its needed by building connecting canals, or pipelines, from state to state. Pipelines are used to transport oil and natural gas throughout the United States, so why not floodwaters to provide water to farmlands in California?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The economy can&#8217;t thrive or survive without water.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Gus Olivo<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t appear the weather will revert to what we&#8217;ve known in the past, so it&#8217;s best to plan accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10696"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}