{"id":179627,"date":"2024-08-31T10:27:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T08:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-decommissioning-of-prince-edward-waterworks-sparks-fears-of-humanitarian-crisis-in-harare\/"},"modified":"2024-08-31T10:27:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T08:27:39","slug":"zimbabwe-decommissioning-of-prince-edward-waterworks-sparks-fears-of-humanitarian-crisis-in-harare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-decommissioning-of-prince-edward-waterworks-sparks-fears-of-humanitarian-crisis-in-harare\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Decommissioning of Prince Edward Waterworks Sparks Fears of Humanitarian Crisis in Harare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The recent decommissioning of the Prince Edward water purification plant by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hararecity.co.zw\" rel=\"noopener\">City of Harare<\/a> has raised alarms, with the Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) warning of a looming humanitarian disaster if urgent measures are not implemented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The decision to halt operations at the plant comes amid a severe shortage of raw water from the Seke and Harava Dams, exacerbated by the ongoing El Ni\u00f1o-induced drought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">CHRA expressed grave concerns over the water crisis, highlighting the daily loss&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408300379.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>The recent decommissioning of the Prince Edward water purification plant by the City of Harare has raised alarms, with the Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) warning of a looming humanitarian disaster if urgent measures are not implemented. The decision to halt operations at the plant comes amid a severe shortage of raw water from the [&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":[258,256,3723,49404,11449,5140,500,6068,257,16844,254,9617,49405,4686,421],"class_list":["post-179627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crisis","tag-decommissioning","tag-edward","tag-fears","tag-harare","tag-humanitarian","tag-news","tag-prince","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sparks","tag-waterworks","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179627","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=179627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179627\/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=179627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}