{"id":27665,"date":"2018-02-16T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=27665"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:28:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:28:15","slug":"water-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/water-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Water of Life&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young elephant waits for his turn at an overcrowded waterhole in Hwange National Park.<\/p>\n<p>Poor rains caused most of the natural waterholes in Hwange to dry up early this year leading to extreme pressure on the limited capacity of the pumped water sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"none\">Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27664\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 910px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Hwange-10-371e-3.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Hwange-10-371e-3.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=75&amp;resize=75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Hwange-10-371e-3.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=100&amp;resize=100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Hwange-10-371e-3.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=150&amp;resize=150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Hwange-10-371e-3.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=240&amp;resize=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Hwange-10-371e-3.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=320&amp;resize=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Hwange-10-371e-3.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=500&amp;resize=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Hwange-10-371e-3.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=640&amp;resize=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Hwange-10-371e-3.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=800&amp;resize=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Hwange-10-371e-3.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1024&amp;resize=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Hwange-10-371e-3.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1280&amp;resize=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Hwange-10-371e-3.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1600&amp;resize=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" class=\"wp-image-27664 size-full\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Hwange-10-371e-3.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Nikon D3s &#8211; Nikon 200-400 f4 &#8211; ISO 800. f4 @ 1\/1600 Sec &#8211; Lexar media.\u00a9 Dana Allen &#8211; www.photosafari-africa.net &#8211; with Little Makololo Camp &#8211; \u00a9 Dana Allen &#8211; www.photosafari-africa.net<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class='mb-center maxbutton-6-center'><span class='maxbutton-6-container mb-container'><a class=\"maxbutton-6 maxbutton maxbutton-subscribe-to-our-free-newsletter\" href=\"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/subscribe\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><span class='mb-text'>Subscribe to our FREE Newsletter<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young elephant waits for his turn at an overcrowded waterhole in Hwange National Park. 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