{"id":44003,"date":"2022-04-29T05:36:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T20:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/28\/extreme-heatwave-in-india-and-pakistan-causes-power-and-water-shortages"},"modified":"2022-04-29T05:36:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T20:36:36","slug":"extreme-heatwave-in-india-and-pakistan-causes-power-and-water-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44003","title":{"rendered":"Extreme heatwave in India and Pakistan causes power and water shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power stations face coal shortages while burning landfill chokes residents in New Delhi<\/p>\n<p>Millions sweltered in a dangerous early summer heatwave across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/india\">India<\/a> and Pakistan that has led to power and water shortages as annual furnace-like temperatures hit South Asia.<\/p>\n<p>In New Delhi, a burning rubbish dump choked residents for a third day on Thursday as temperatures crossed 45C (113F) in parts of the region. Forecasters warn it will get even hotter this weekend.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/28\/extreme-heatwave-in-india-and-pakistan-causes-power-and-water-shortages\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power stations face coal shortages while burning landfill chokes residents in New DelhiMillions sweltered in a dangerous early summer heatwave across India and Pakistan that has led to power and water shortages as annual furnace-like temperatures hit S&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2356,"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":[2331,65,62,60,466,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-india","category-pakistan","category-pollution","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44003","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\/2356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44004,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44003\/revisions\/44004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}