{"id":639212,"date":"2010-01-20T15:35:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T20:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.circleofblue.org\/waternews\/?p=10838"},"modified":"2010-01-20T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T20:35:11","slug":"video-following-the-hidden-waters-of-southwest-china%e2%80%99s-karst-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/639212","title":{"rendered":"Video: Following the Hidden Waters of Southwest China\u2019s Karst Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><br \/>\nThe vast yet inaccessible underground waters in southwest Yunnan Province represent the front lines of China&#8217;s freshwater crisis. Two openings in the earth, Shi Dong and Nan Dong caves, where the Yang Liu River slips into and out of the shadows, mark the point where a fluvial region rich with surface streams meets an unusual geologic formation of soluble rock layers known as a karst landscape. It is also a fateful human dividing line, a place where China&#8217;s challenges with water scarcity, land use, and pollution come into clear focus.<\/em><span id=\"more-10838\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"forecast_sidebar\" style=\"text-transform:none; width: 575px; margin-bottom:15px;\">\n<div class=\"sidebarForecast\"><strong>VIDEO: Hidden Waters, Dragons in the Deep<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"sidebarForecast\" style=\"width:575px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\"><center>[See post to watch Flash video]<\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"photoCaption\" align=\"right\" style=\"width:575px; margin-top:-15px; margin-bottom:15px;\"><i>Video by Brian Robertshaw; edited by Aaron Jaffe for Circle of Blue.<\/i><\/div class=\"photoCaption\"> A look at what is commonly considered the home of the greatest Karst landscape on earth, and its secret waters that flow underneath.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vast yet inaccessible underground waters in southwest Yunnan Province represent the front lines of China&#8217;s freshwater crisis. Two openings in the earth, Shi Dong and Nan Dong caves, where the Yang Liu River slips into and out of the shadows, mark the point where a fluvial region rich with surface streams meets an unusual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GhS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639212","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\/2527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}