{"id":69191,"date":"2014-09-18T15:32:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T13:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=69191"},"modified":"2014-09-22T11:15:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T09:15:22","slug":"metro-speaks-residents-water-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/09\/18\/metro-speaks-residents-water-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro speaks out about residents&#8217; water woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following reports of low water pressure and no water in various parts of the region since Friday, the metro is calling upon its residents to reduce their water consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN has received a number of complaints from residents throughout Germiston, the metro&#8217;s Themba Gadebe, of the metro&#8217;s communication and brand management department said on Thursday that, &#8220;the problems residents are experiencing with water supply interruption is due to a problem with the supply to the Russell Reservoir.&#8221;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Since Monday the following areas have been affected with low water pressure or no water supply at all:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lambton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Hazeldene<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Hazel Park<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Albemarle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Wadeville<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Dinwiddie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Norton Small Farms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Buhle Park (Klippoortjie Park)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Castleview<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, water supply to areas of Benoni, which experienced similar problems, has been restored to normal.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The areas of Benoni, Brakpan, Tsakane and Germiston have, over the past days, been experiencing low water pressure or no water at all, especially during peak hour demand periods,&#8221; added Gadebe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The water in the reservoirs has gone below the minimum required levels due to high demand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our investigation of the situation, at this stage, has revealed that there is extremely high water usage which could be attributed to the hot weather,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To stabilise the water situation all water users are requested to use water sparingly by stopping all forms of irrigation, washing of vehicles and filling of swimming pools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Residents are also urged to report any burst pipes, and repair leaks in their properties to avoid water losses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The municipality went on to apologise for any inconvenience caused through the unplanned water interruption.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We assure all consumers that technical maintenance teams from the metro are working very hard to ensure that supply is restored.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Water tankers will be provided for basic household needs, information on the location of the tankers will be communicated to the press soon.<\/p>\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/69271\/metro-plans-to-implement-the-following-measures-to-control-water-demand\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metro shares its plans to control the water demand.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/69232\/metro-speaks-out-about-residents-water-woes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Many Germiston residents have been affected by the sudden interruption in the water supply.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/69166\/water\/\" target=\"_blank\">Residents of Germiston left without water for days.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/69240\/water-shortage-blamed-on-high-demand\/\" target=\"_blank\">More water being consumed due to the hot weather.<\/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='c42d851543c1d61a086aec9d999f1694'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro appeals to community to use water sparingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":69167,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,1289,3563,4385],"class_list":["post-69191","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","tag-water","tag-water-leak","tag-water-outage"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","water","water leak","water outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69191","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\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}