{"id":56409,"date":"2023-07-03T23:36:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T14:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/03\/taps-run-dry-on-thai-island-as-tourism-boom-worsens-water-shortage-koh-samui"},"modified":"2023-07-03T23:36:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T14:36:19","slug":"taps-run-dry-on-thai-island-as-tourism-boom-worsens-water-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56409","title":{"rendered":"Taps run dry on Thai island as tourism boom worsens water shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public urged to use water sparingly on Koh Samui, as authorities say they don\u2019t want it to become \u2018a disaster zone\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Authorities on Koh Samui are working to tackle a water shortage that has left taps running dry often for months, saying they do not want the Thai island to become a \u201cdisaster zone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A lack of rain and a resurgence in tourism has put intense pressure on supplies, prompting Sutham Samthong, a deputy mayor of Koh Samui, to urge the public to use supplies sparingly.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/03\/taps-run-dry-on-thai-island-as-tourism-boom-worsens-water-shortage-koh-samui\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public urged to use water sparingly on Koh Samui, as authorities say they don\u2019t want it to become \u2018a disaster zone\u2019Authorities on Koh Samui are working to tackle a water shortage that has left taps running dry often for months, saying they do not want &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2336,"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":[41,65,93,827,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-thailand","category-water","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56409","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\/2336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56410,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56409\/revisions\/56410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}