{"id":278096,"date":"2019-06-05T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiV2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV0aGlvcGlhb2JzZXJ2ZXIuY29tLzIwMTkvMDYvMDUvZmFzdC12YW5pc2hpbmctZXRoaW9waWFzLXJpZnQtdmFsbGV5LWxha2VzL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-26T11:15:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:15:45","slug":"ethiopia-observer-warned-that-rift-valley-lakes-such-as-ziway-and-abiyata-were-vanishing-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278096","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Observer warned that Rift Valley lakes such as Ziway and Abiyata were vanishing fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Ethiopia Observer reported that lakes in the Ethiopian Rift Valley, including Ziway and Abiyata, were shrinking in ways that threatened fishing, lakeside trade, and bird habitat.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-219692\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ethiopian-forests.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia Observer warned that Rift Valley lakes such as Ziway and Abiyata were vanishing fast\" \/>\n<p>Bayush Sisay, who ran a small restaurant near the water, said she was no longer sure how long the lakeside economy could support her, which put a human face on a long environmental decline.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as environment archive, the Observer feature dates local alarm over fast-vanishing Rift Valley lakes in mid-2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethiopiaobserver.com\/2019\/06\/05\/fast-vanishing-ethiopias-rift-valley-lakes\/\">Ethiopia Observer<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast vanishing Ethiopia&#8217;s Rift Valley Lakes&nbsp;&nbsp;ethiopiaobserver.comLake Ziway and Abiyata: Troubled waters. Bayush Sisay is not sure how long she will keep on working on. Her income from the small restaurant trade by which &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":219692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ethiopian-forests.jpg?fit=707%2C392&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1alq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755047,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278096\/revisions\/755047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}