{"id":40256,"date":"2016-01-13T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/40256\/water-restrictions-still-applies\/"},"modified":"2016-01-13T16:08:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T14:08:03","slug":"water-restrictions-still-applies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/01\/13\/water-restrictions-still-applies\/","title":{"rendered":"Water restrictions still applies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Offences are punishable with fines of R1 500 or more. Offences include the use of irrigation systems for gardens and lawns, washing of paved areas and vehicles with a hose pipe and not a bucket, and any other activity wasting water unnecessarily.<\/p>\n<p>Water levels are always changing especially due to the higher demand for it in the summer and while the water situation is still manageable.<\/p>\n<p>The Assistant Director of Communications for Steve Tshwete<\/p>\n<p>Municipality, Prudence Magutle, has urged that residents adhere to the restrictions and should play<\/p>\n<p>their part in water conservation.\u2022Middelburg Dam was 61.6 % full on the 11th of January 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently there are no new water restrictions in place except for the water restrictions that were already in place from November 2015, which still applies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":40660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}