{"id":65166,"date":"2017-03-30T12:42:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T10:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=65166"},"modified":"2017-03-30T12:42:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T10:42:13","slug":"watch-black-water-mhluzi-taps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/03\/30\/watch-black-water-mhluzi-taps\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Black water from Mhluzi taps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Steve Tshwete municipality stated that they have discovered in the latest water analysis that there is a higher than normal Manganese concentration in the raw water from Middelburg dam.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Uzvb4P1mVAo' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Manganese is causing a yellowish colour in the water and can settle in the reservoirs where there is already some sedimentation.<\/p>\n<p>During the distribution into the water<br \/>\nnetwork this sediment can gets into the water network and causes the colour\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black water coming out of taps has Mhluzi residents fuming for the past couple weeks. Many areas have been affected including Extension 2,3 and Mataileng.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":65175,"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":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65166","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\/65166","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\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}