{"id":70006,"date":"2014-10-03T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/70006\/metro-explains-the-use-of-sprinklers\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T10:19:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T08:19:27","slug":"metro-explains-the-use-of-sprinklers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/03\/metro-explains-the-use-of-sprinklers\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro explains the use of sprinklers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the threat of water shortages still fresh in the minds of Germiston residents, many would like to know why the metro continued to water their gardens throughout the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN fielded a large number of complaints from residents throughout the metro, reporting that the municipality is still using their sprinklers (irrigation system) to water the gardens at the council chambers in Germiston in the early hours of the morning.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The GCN approached the metro to find out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0If the allegations were true?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0If so, how could the metro encourage residents to use water sparingly when they are not doing the same?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lebogang Ramashala, senior media officer with the metro\u2019s department of communications and brand management, released the following statement:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe metro\u2019s parks department is not making use of the main water lines, but rather underground water pumped into a reservoir under the Civic Centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis water is not suitable for drinking.\u201d<\/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='7dce906875760577da16a764f0b058ec'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does the metro water their gardens while residents sit without water?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":69769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Leigh Hodgson","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,5010,5011,1289,4385,5009],"class_list":["post-70006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-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-sprinklers","tag-use-water-sparingly","tag-water","tag-water-outage","tag-water-shortages"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","sprinklers","use water sparingly","water","water outage","water shortages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70006","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=70006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}