{"id":30503,"date":"2025-01-14T17:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T17:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/assume-the-worst-fears-rise-that-la-drinking-water-could-be-contaminated\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T17:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T17:59:21","slug":"assume-the-worst-fears-rise-that-la-drinking-water-could-be-contaminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/assume-the-worst-fears-rise-that-la-drinking-water-could-be-contaminated\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Assume the worst\u2019: fears rise that LA drinking water could be contaminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing concern that toxic chemicals released by wildfires can get into damaged drinking water systems<\/p>\n<p>As fires continue to burn across Los Angeles, several utilities have declared their drinking water unsafe until extensive testing can prove otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>A warmer, drier climate means wildfires are getting worse, and encroaching on cities \u2013 with devastating impact. Toxic chemicals from those burns can get into damaged drinking water systems, and even filtering or boiling won\u2019t help, experts say.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/14\/la-fires-drinking-water-contaminated\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing concern that toxic chemicals released by wildfires can get into damaged drinking water systems As fires continue to burn across Los Angeles, several utilities have declared their drinking water unsafe until extensive testing can prove otherwise. A warmer, drier climate means wildfires are getting worse, and encroaching on cities \u2013 with devastating impact. Toxic &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Assume the worst\u2019: fears rise that LA drinking water could be contaminated\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/assume-the-worst-fears-rise-that-la-drinking-water-could-be-contaminated\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Assume the worst\u2019: fears rise that LA drinking water could be contaminated\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}