{"id":72233,"date":"2017-09-12T09:37:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T07:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=72233"},"modified":"2017-09-12T09:37:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T07:37:49","slug":"water-restrictions-still-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/09\/12\/water-restrictions-still-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Water restrictions still in place?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For several months now home owners are filling pools, washing cars with hosepipes and watering gardens &#8211; all activities banned under municipal water restrictions which were widely advertised to be enforced.<\/p>\n<p>But it is believed that not a single fine has been issued since restrictions were first announced in the municipality &#8211; and this is because the matter has not even been government gazetted.<\/p>\n<p>What then is the purpose of water constraints if they are unable to impose it through law enforcement?<\/p>\n<p>What is your experience with the water restrictions and have you seen your neighbour use water unlawfully?<\/p>\n<p>Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of residents are using water without restrictions as no law enforcement is taking place through means of penalty fines or warnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":62209,"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":[],"class_list":["post-72233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-local-municipal-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\/72233","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=72233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}