{"id":136773,"date":"2016-10-28T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/136773\/residents-left-distraught-as-water-gushes-from-empty-house\/"},"modified":"2016-10-27T13:37:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T11:37:10","slug":"residents-left-distraught-as-water-gushes-from-empty-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/10\/28\/residents-left-distraught-as-water-gushes-from-empty-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents left distraught as water gushes from empty house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Haarlem Street in Gerdview recently awoke to the sound of gushing water.<\/p>\n<p>After investigating, they discovered that the water was coming from an empty house in the street.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>With the on-going drought and water restrictions in mind, many of the residents called the metro\u2019s call centre to report the problem, as they did not know how to contact the property\u2019s owners.<\/p>\n<p>After several calls, at regular intervals residents were unhappy that the metro had not come to assist.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The GCN contacted the metro to find out if the metro was aware of the problem and why with the water restrictions had the matter not been attended to?<\/p>\n<p>The metro did not respond to the GCN\u2019s queries. Instead, Themba Gadebe, the spokesman for the metro, simply stated that the matter had been seen to, two days after it was reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/136519\/how-to-report-those-violating-water-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to report those violating water restrictions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/136316\/water-levels-reach-crisis-levels\/\" target=\"_blank\">Water levels reach crisis point<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/135072\/reduce-water-consumption-or-face-a-hefty-fine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reduce water consumption or face a hefty fine<\/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='dc503fe2445d876e7d73e180c0dc8c35'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water gushes from empty house in Haarlem Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":104733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,8515,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-136773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136773","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=136773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}