{"id":14261,"date":"2025-08-21T16:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14261\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:47:08","slug":"climate-change-exacerbates-water-shortages-across-bulgaria-and-southern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14261\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Exacerbates Water Shortages Across Bulgaria and Southern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Once a week, Georgi Petrov drives to a wheat field outside the northern Bulgarian village of Hadzhidimitrovo, removes four heavy stones from the make-shift steel lid of a borehole and peers inside. The 40-year-old builder helped oversee its installation and inspects it regularly to try to ensure the water it draws doesn\u2019t get contaminated.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cIf something gets in there, we could be doomed,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once a week, Georgi Petrov drives to a wheat field outside the northern Bulgarian village of Hadzhidimitrovo, removes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[13179,13178,79,442,18,440,1015,13181,3428,10952,19,6394,17,2101,133,13180],"class_list":{"0":"post-14261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-black-sea","9":"tag-bulgaria","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-climate-change","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-farming","16":"tag-government","17":"tag-green","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-infrastructure","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-public-health","22":"tag-science","23":"tag-world-bank"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}