{"id":82932,"date":"2015-03-08T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/82932\/water-gushes-for-four-days-before-meter-is-replacedormetro-replaces-stolen-meter\/"},"modified":"2015-03-06T14:00:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T12:00:46","slug":"water-gushes-for-four-days-before-meter-is-replacedormetro-replaces-stolen-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/03\/08\/water-gushes-for-four-days-before-meter-is-replacedormetro-replaces-stolen-meter\/","title":{"rendered":"Water gushes for four days before meter is replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston City News received a report from Fisher\u2019s Hill resident Roy Harris about a stolen water meter.<\/p>\n<p>The water meter was stolen from Neptune Road on Friday, February 27 and, despite being reported, the water was left to gush for four days before the metro reacted.<\/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>\u00a0Why they took so long to replace the meter?<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0To whom can the community report incidents such as these?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Themba Gadebe, spokesman for the metro responded with the following statement: \u201cThe EMM\u2019s Water and Sanitation Department would like to apologise for the delayed response, however, our engineers have confirmed that the water meter was installed and the query was closed on Tuesday, March 3.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOur customers are again reminded to report any water meter-related problems to our service call centre number: 0860 054 3000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to the above number, customers can also report any water meter-related complaints to the service delivery department: 011 999 5514\/1712\/0458\/1790.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/70874\/why-does-the-metro-take-so-long-to-replace-water-meters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metro takes five months to replace water meter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/62801\/water-meter-woes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Money wasted with every drop.<\/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='ea805dd62409233124a496e305e2f3a9'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro replaces stolen meter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":82943,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,5196],"class_list":["post-82932","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-stolen-water-meter"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","stolen water meter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82932","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=82932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}