{"id":51,"date":"2023-10-19T17:42:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T16:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2023-10-19T17:44:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T16:44:39","slug":"colorado-river-basin-drought-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Colorado River Basin Drought Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5;width:132px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Image.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Image-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Drought<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drought.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">National Integrated Drought Information System<\/a> updates the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drought.gov\/watersheds\/colorado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Colorado River Basin<\/a> drought status every Thursday with current data from the previous Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Today&#8217;s update reflects a negligible reduction for the total area in drought from the previous week at 35.17%, down from 35.52% the previous week. <em>Severe, Extreme, <\/em>and<em> Exceptional Drought<\/em> areas in the basin remained the same with a 0.35% shift from <em>Moderate Drought<\/em> to <em>Abnormally Dry<\/em> marking the only improvements in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"749\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/u.s.-drought-monitor_-colorado-river-basin-10-19-2023-749x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/u.s.-drought-monitor_-colorado-river-basin-10-19-2023-749x1024.png 749w, https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/u.s.-drought-monitor_-colorado-river-basin-10-19-2023-219x300.png 219w, https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/u.s.-drought-monitor_-colorado-river-basin-10-19-2023-768x1051.png 768w, https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/u.s.-drought-monitor_-colorado-river-basin-10-19-2023-1123x1536.png 1123w, https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/u.s.-drought-monitor_-colorado-river-basin-10-19-2023.png 1449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Integrated Drought Information System updates the Colorado River Basin drought status every Thursday with current data from the previous Tuesday. Today&#8217;s update reflects a negligible reduction for the total area in drought from the previous week at 35.17%, down from 35.52% the previous week. Severe, Extreme, and Exceptional Drought areas in the basin &#8230; <a title=\"Colorado River Basin Drought Status\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/?p=51\" aria-label=\"More on Colorado River Basin Drought Status\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}