{"id":64550,"date":"2024-05-31T01:05:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T16:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/30\/unliveable-delhis-residents-struggle-to-cope-in-record-breaking-heat"},"modified":"2024-05-31T01:05:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T16:05:16","slug":"unliveable-delhis-residents-struggle-to-cope-in-record-breaking-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64550","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unliveable\u2019: Delhi\u2019s residents struggle to cope in record-breaking heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures of more than 45C have left population of 29 million exhausted \u2013 but the poorest suffer most<\/p>\n<p>As the water tanker drove into a crowded Delhi neighbourhood, a ruckus erupted. Dozens of residents ran frantically behind it, brandishing buckets, bottles and hoses, and jumped on top of it to get even a drip of what was stored inside. Temperatures that day had soared to 49C (120F), the hottest day on record \u2013 and in many places across India\u2019s vast capital, home to more than 29 million people, water had run out.<\/p>\n<p>Every morning, Tripti, a social health worker who lives in the impoverished enclave of Vivekanand Camp, is among those who has to stand under the blazing sun with buckets and pots, waiting desperately for the water tanker to arrive.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/30\/unliveable-delhis-residents-struggle-to-cope-in-record-breaking-heat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures of more than 45C have left population of 29 million exhausted \u2013 but the poorest suffer mostAs the water tanker drove into a crowded Delhi neighbourhood, a ruckus erupted. Dozens of residents ran frantically behind it, brandishing buckets, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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":[2331,353,65,455,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-delhi","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/64550","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64551,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64550\/revisions\/64551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}