{"id":62328,"date":"2017-01-13T08:33:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T15:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=62328"},"modified":"2017-01-13T08:33:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T15:33:52","slug":"sri-lanka-faces-severe-drought-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/01\/13\/sri-lanka-faces-severe-drought-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka faces severe drought conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Xinhua<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>COLOMBO, Jan 13 (Xinhua) &#8212; Sri Lanka&#8217;s several districts would face severe drought conditions in the coming three weeks as very little rain was expected, the country&#8217;s disaster management official warned.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, drinking water was distributed in 17 districts to families who faced a severe water shortage.<\/p>\n<p>Disaster Management officials said that at least 10,000 people were affected by the ongoing drought and the numbers were expected to increase in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>President Maithripala Sirisena on Friday deployed the tri-forces to assist the drought affected families and saying the military will be deployed to every district to assist the officials in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, officials warned the public to conserve water and electricity due to the drought conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Disaster Management Minister Anura Yapa said the government was gearing up to deal with drought relief including food and water but early conservation efforts could help mitigate the coming crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka is facing the worst drought in four decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xinhua COLOMBO, Jan 13 (Xinhua) &#8212; Sri Lanka&#8217;s several districts would face severe drought conditions in the coming three weeks as very little rain was expected, the country&#8217;s disaster management official warned. As a result, drinking water was distributed in 17 districts to families who faced a severe water shortage. Disaster Management officials said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}