{"id":345645,"date":"2021-10-12T08:44:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T08:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=216390"},"modified":"2021-10-12T08:44:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T08:44:42","slug":"newsom-asks-urban-users-to-voluntarily-reduce-water-use-as-nut-growers-suck-up-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/12\/newsom-asks-urban-users-to-voluntarily-reduce-water-use-as-nut-growers-suck-up-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom Asks Urban Users to Voluntarily Reduce Water Use As Nut Growers Suck Up Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sejal Choksi-Chugh, Executive Director of the San Francisco Baykeeper, believes that \u201cit\u2019s nuts\u201d\u00a0to ask\u00a0California\u2019s\u00a0urban water users to voluntarily reduce water use while allowing\u00a0almond, walnut, and pistachio\u00a0growers to use large amounts of water &#8211;\u00a0enough to flood all of Rhode Island and Delaware to waist-deep &#8211;\u00a0during a record\u00a0drought. On July 15,\u00a0Governor Gavin Newsom\u00a0added nine counties to the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/12\/newsom-asks-urban-users-to-voluntarily-reduce-water-use-as-nut-growers-suck-up-water\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/12\/newsom-asks-urban-users-to-voluntarily-reduce-water-use-as-nut-growers-suck-up-water\/\">Newsom Asks Urban Users to Voluntarily Reduce Water Use As Nut Growers Suck Up Water<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/12\/newsom-asks-urban-users-to-voluntarily-reduce-water-use-as-nut-growers-suck-up-water\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sejal Choksi-Chugh, Executive Director of the San Francisco Baykeeper, believes that \u201cit\u2019s nuts\u201d\u00a0to ask\u00a0California\u2019s\u00a0urban water users to voluntarily reduce water use while allowing\u00a0almond, walnut, and pistachio\u00a0growers to use large amounts of water &amp;#&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1909,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345683,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345645\/revisions\/345683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}