{"id":50825,"date":"2016-06-13T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/50825\/residents-face-fines-for-not-adhering-to-water-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2016-06-15T15:11:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T13:11:52","slug":"residents-face-fines-for-not-adhering-to-water-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/06\/13\/residents-face-fines-for-not-adhering-to-water-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents face fines for not adhering to water restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The message was sent this morning to all residents of town via SMS.<\/p>\n<p>Although no specific restrictions are in place, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevetshwetelm.gov.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">the municipality stated <\/a>that anything considered to be wastage of water could be viewed as a violation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResidents have to adhere to a usage limit of 20kl a month. As long as you are within that limit you should be safe. Anything over that limit could be fined,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevetshwetelm.gov.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">the municipality said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The SMS stated that Middelburg Dam is at 49,79% and that this is very low, and urged residents to save water.<\/p>\n<p>It was added that any pipe bursts should be reported to 013 249 7168\/1656 or 083 570 4430.<\/p>\n<p>Read previous stories here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/37358\/court-yet-to-decide-on-water-fines\/\" target=\"_blank\">Court yet to decide on water fines<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Steve Tshwete Municipality has warned that residents not adhering to water restrictions could face fines of up to R1 500 per incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":50834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,2],"tags":[4974,4972,4971,4973,920,1012,4970],"class_list":["post-50825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-fines","tag-safe-water","tag-shortage","tag-spaar-water","tag-steve-tshwete-municipality","tag-water","tag-water-restrictions"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Fines","safe water","shortage","spaar water","Steve Tshwete Municipality","water","water restrictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50825","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=50825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}