{"id":280,"date":"2021-11-22T15:04:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T20:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ottawariverkeeper.ca\/discovery-portal\/?post_type=answer&#038;p=280"},"modified":"2022-04-06T11:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:38:07","slug":"agriculture","status":"publish","type":"answer","link":"https:\/\/ottawariverkeeper.ca\/discovery-portal\/answer\/agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>What effect does agriculture have on the watershed?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture and water are closely linked; water is needed to grow crops and raise livestock, but agricultural practices have a big influence on water quality. They pollute waterways over a large area, with no one specific location or source, which is different from pollution from something like sewer overflow, which adds pollution at a single point. On agricultural fields, water from rainfall, irrigation, or from melting snow moves across and through the ground, transporting pollutants into local waterways like lakes, wetlands, and rivers.\u00a0 For this reason, local agricultural practices and methods of cultivation can have a strong influence on water quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawariverkeeper.ca\/discovery-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/answer\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawariverkeeper.ca\/discovery-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/answer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawariverkeeper.ca\/discovery-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/answer"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawariverkeeper.ca\/discovery-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}