{"id":104405,"date":"2015-11-10T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/104405\/save-water-now\/"},"modified":"2015-11-10T11:43:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T09:43:48","slug":"save-water-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/11\/10\/save-water-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Save water now &#8212; some Germiston areas affected by water shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the light of soaring temperatures and scarcity of rain, residents are urged to use water sparingly in order to normalise the water supply.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve this, they are requested to adhere to the following measures consistently in the next seven days:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>No filling of swimming pools.<\/li>\n<li>No gardening and irrigation at all unless you make use of grey water.<\/li>\n<li>No water washing of pavements and cars.<\/li>\n<li>Reduce showering time and capture in buckets the cold water that initially comes from the shower.<\/li>\n<li>Repair leaking cisterns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIf these measures are adhered to, for the mentioned period, the water supply will normalise,\u201d said Themba Gadebe, spokesman for the metro.<\/p>\n<p>Some areas of Germiston and Bedfordview have, however, been affected by water shortages; raising the water levels in reservoirs that supply the affected areas remains a challenge due to high demand.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The affected areas are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Primrose.<\/li>\n<li>Signal Hill.<\/li>\n<li>Lambton.<\/li>\n<li>Bedfordview.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some related articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/103570\/no-water-restrictions-yet-says-metro-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">No water restrictions yet, says metro<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/103376\/do-you-bit-and-save-water-to-help-prevent-a-water-shortage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Do your bit and save water to help prevent a water shortage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/102940\/rand-water-and-municipalities-urge-consumers-to-use-water-sparingly\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rand Water and municipalities urge consumers to use water sparingly<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='154f02a12ad5bed2cfd281dc470c7ffa'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents urged to continue to use water sparingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":104408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1781,1003,979,969,1059,2734,1002,1004,1000,3564,8863,8919,1289,5009],"class_list":["post-104405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-bedfordview","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-lambton","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-primrose","tag-rand-water","tag-save-water","tag-signal-hill","tag-water","tag-water-shortages"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Bedfordview","Ekurhuleni","germiston","germiston city news","lambton","melissa hart","metro","municipality","primrose","Rand Water","save water","signal hill","water","water shortages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}