{"id":146210,"date":"2017-03-12T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/146210\/cause-of-delport-street-water-outages-still-a-mystery\/"},"modified":"2017-03-12T21:02:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T19:02:47","slug":"cause-of-delport-street-water-outages-still-a-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/03\/12\/cause-of-delport-street-water-outages-still-a-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause of Delport Street water outages still a mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For residents of Delport Street, in Elsburg, is has been an uphill battle trying to get answers from the metro.<\/p>\n<p>A number of residents recently reported the problem to the Germiston City News, explaining that the water supply in the street is disrupted several times a day.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The residents\u2019 water woes have been ongoing for over a month, with no concrete answers from the metro.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN sent an urgent query to the metro requesting clarity on the situation and to find out what the cause of the problem was, when it would be rectified, as well as what measures the metro would be taking to make sure that the problem did not occur again.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Themba Gadebe, spokesman for the metro, replied to the query stating that the metro was investigating the cause of the water supply interruptions in Elsburg.<\/p>\n<p>But no further response on the matter was received.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/146068\/dark-fortnight-for-family\/\">Dark fortnight for family<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142776\/stormwater-drainage-leaves-residents-in-the-lurch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stormwater drainage leaves residents in the lurch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142715\/metro-increases-police-precincts-as-it-takes-crime-battle-to-zonkizizwe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metro increases police precincts as it takes crime battle to Zonkizizwe<\/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='ec297d8f733e0d545a7d74d93696d6ab'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The residents of Delport Street, in Elsburg, want answers from the metro as to what is causing the continuous water outages in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":143523,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-146210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/146210","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=146210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}