{"id":99276,"date":"2015-09-08T18:03:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T16:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=99276"},"modified":"2015-09-08T18:03:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T16:03:30","slug":"metro-continues-to-work-on-water-supply-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/09\/08\/metro-continues-to-work-on-water-supply-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro continues to work on water supply problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The metro has told the GCN that t<span style=\"font-size: medium;line-height: 1.5\">echnicians are still working tirelessly to fully restore the water supply to parts of Germiston that have, over the past week, been experiencing low water pressure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;line-height: 1.5\">The areas have been affected by technical problems at the Primrose reservoir, which also supplies the Russell reservoir.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;line-height: 1.5\">While the metro implements permanent repairs to the reservoir, technicians have temporarily by-passed the supply to directly feed the affected areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;line-height: 1.5\">&#8220;At present, the water supply has been restored to most of the areas but an alert of low water pressure to no water is still expected in certain areas for the next couple of days,&#8221; said metro spokesman Themba Gadebe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;line-height: 1.5\">&#8220;We also advise all consumers to use water sparingly and store some for domestic purposes while work continues.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;line-height: 1.5\">Residents are advised to use water sparingly while investigations are being carried out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;line-height: 1.5\">The following areas are affected:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;line-height: 1.5\">* Wadeville;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">* Lambton;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">* Hazel Park;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">* Hazeldene;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">* Dinwiddie;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">* Albemarle;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">* Castleview;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">* The south side of Elsburg.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;line-height: 1.5\">Roving water tankers will be made available to areas as and when the area\/section experiences no water, priority will be given to old age homes and schools.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The metro apologises to all consumers concerned for the inconvenience caused by the interruption of the water supply.<\/span><\/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='e57510647977b2ea5be80fbfe74dd5e3'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents are still battling with low water pressure or no water at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":98946,"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":[1003,979,969,2734,1002,1004,1289,2495],"class_list":["post-99276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-water","tag-water-supply"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","metro","municipality","water","water supply"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99276","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}