{"id":40958,"date":"2022-01-22T16:53:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T07:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/22\/tonga-volcano-drinking-water-is-priority-as-aid-begins-to-arrive-for-stricken-nation"},"modified":"2022-01-22T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T07:53:07","slug":"tonga-volcano-drinking-water-is-priority-as-aid-begins-to-arrive-for-stricken-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40958","title":{"rendered":"Tonga volcano: drinking water is priority as aid begins to arrive for stricken nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first aid vessels and flights have arrived and more are on their way as the  devastated Pacific nation begins clean-up<\/p>\n<p>Tonga\u2019s government said drinking water was the priority as the clean-up continued a week after a devastating volcanic eruption and tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>A national emergency team had already distributed 60,000 litres of water to residents, the government said on Saturday. A desalination plant on a New Zealand naval ship that arrived on Friday, capable of producing 70,000 litres a day, has started drawing seawater from Tonga\u2019s harbour.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/22\/tonga-volcano-drinking-water-is-priority-as-aid-begins-to-arrive-for-stricken-nation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first aid vessels and flights have arrived and more are on their way as the  devastated Pacific nation begins clean-upTonga\u2019s government said drinking water was the priority as the clean-up continued a week after a devastating volcanic eruption and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,280,2489],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-tonga","category-tonga-volcano"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40959,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40958\/revisions\/40959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}