{"id":98756,"date":"2015-09-03T13:32:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T11:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=98756"},"modified":"2015-09-03T13:32:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T11:32:05","slug":"emergency-water-supply-interruption-affects-parts-of-germiston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/09\/03\/emergency-water-supply-interruption-affects-parts-of-germiston\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency water supply interruption affects parts of Germiston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents from several Germiston suburbs have been left without water for up to three days.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated with the lack of information they received from the metro they contacted the GCN to try and get clarification on the issue.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Following several queries sent to the metro, the GCN has been able to establish that the metro\u00a0is aware of the water supply interruption affecting parts of Germiston.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Themba Gadebe, spokesman for the metro said, &#8220;Due to technical problems at the 40 mega litre reservoir in Primrose, residents in a number of areas have been experiencing low water pressure or no water at all.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The metro and Rand Water technicians are currently on site working around the clock conducting repairs in order to restore the water supply to affected areas as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The following areas are affected:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Albemarle;<\/li>\n<li>Aberdeen;<\/li>\n<li>Castleview;<\/li>\n<li>Elsburg;<\/li>\n<li>Germiston;<\/li>\n<li>Hazeldene;<\/li>\n<li>Lambton;<\/li>\n<li>Primrose;<\/li>\n<li>Tedstoneville;<\/li>\n<li>Wadeville.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is reported that roving water tankers will be provided to the affected areas, but the metro has yet to supply information on where these tankers can be located.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The metro wishes to apologise for any inconvenience caused and reminds residents to keep all taps closed for the duration of the outage,&#8221;\u00a0Gadebe said.<\/p>\n<p>No indication has been given as to when the water will be restored.<\/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='0128d1368cf93617eec00209b57250dc'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians work to restore water supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":92758,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,3564,1289],"class_list":["post-98756","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-rand-water","tag-water"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","Rand Water","water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98756","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=98756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}