{"id":57659,"date":"2026-07-30T01:29:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T01:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/in-pictures-scale-of-drought-across-england-as-rivers-dry-up\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T01:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T01:29:24","slug":"in-pictures-scale-of-drought-across-england-as-rivers-dry-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/in-pictures-scale-of-drought-across-england-as-rivers-dry-up\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: Scale of drought across England as rivers dry up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Drought has been declared across more than half of England as hot, dry weather takes its toll on the country&#8217;s water supplies.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The announcement means there have been three droughts in the past five years &#8211; 2022, 2025 and now 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Photos from across the country have captured some of the dry conditions &#8211; including receding rivers, parched parks and sportspeople trying to play on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cgljz92j0j0o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drought has been declared across more than half of England as hot, dry weather takes its toll on the country&#8217;s water supplies. The announcement means there have been three droughts in the past five years &#8211; 2022, 2025 and now 2026. Photos from across the country have captured some of the dry conditions &#8211; including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[6835,2785,278,135,9428,8103],"class_list":["post-57659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-pictures","tag-drought","tag-dry","tag-england","tag-pictures","tag-rivers","tag-scale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57661,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57659\/revisions\/57661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}