{"id":178502,"date":"2024-08-14T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T07:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-bulawayo-tightens-water-rationing-as-supplies-dwindle\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T07:29:09","slug":"zimbabwe-bulawayo-tightens-water-rationing-as-supplies-dwindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-bulawayo-tightens-water-rationing-as-supplies-dwindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Bulawayo Tightens Water Rationing As Supplies Dwindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has issued a warning to residents to conserve water, as dam levels are anticipated to drop below the 21-month supply threshold if conservation measures are not followed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The 21-month rule requires that water reserves exceed 21 months to be deemed sufficient. In response, BCC has implemented a stricter water rationing programme and is imposing significant fines on those who do not comply with the new regulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">In response to the dwindling water reserves, BCC has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408140089.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has issued a warning to residents to conserve water, as dam levels are anticipated to drop below the 21-month supply threshold if conservation measures are not followed. The 21-month rule requires that water reserves exceed 21 months to be deemed sufficient. In response, BCC has implemented a stricter water rationing programme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,3691,23374,257,25982,254,15863,6846,6722,4686,421],"class_list":["post-178502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bulawayo","tag-dwindle","tag-news","tag-rationing","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supplies","tag-tightens","tag-water","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}