{"id":134175,"date":"2016-09-28T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/134175\/russell-road-reservoir-running-low\/"},"modified":"2016-09-28T12:26:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T10:26:51","slug":"russell-road-reservoir-running-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/09\/28\/russell-road-reservoir-running-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Road reservoir running low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metro technicians have been closely monitoring water levels at reservoirs across Ekurhuleni and have noted that water levels at the Russell Road reservoir are running low.<\/p>\n<p>As a precautionary measure water supply pressure will be reduced in efforts to conserve the resource.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Consumers in Germiston are also urged to implement water saving measures as levels in their supplying reservoir have dropped.<\/p>\n<p>The affected areas are: Albemarle, Castleview, Dinwiddie, Lambton and Wadeville.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cResidents and businesses are required to use water sparingly and adhere to the prohibition of irrigation activities between 6am and 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese include the use of hosepipes, sprinklers and irrigation systems, as well as filling of swimming pools,\u201d said Ekurhuleni\u2019s spokesman Themba Gadebe.<\/p>\n<p>The metro will soon announce a water restriction tariff and fines to be imposed for those who contravene the restrictions that are currently in place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/132892\/metro-implements-water-restrictions-reduce-water-usage-by-15-per-cent\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metro implements water restrictions, reduce water usage by 15 per cent<\/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='981049b237a60a9bbcf95234c6a4a545'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro reduces water supply pressure as reservoir starts to run low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":119087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[1003,979,969,2734,1002,1004,6261,1289,4874,8805],"class_list":["post-134175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-russell-road-reservoir","tag-water","tag-water-pressure","tag-water-restrictions"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","metro","municipality","russell road reservoir","water","water pressure","water restrictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134175","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=134175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}