{"id":188221,"date":"2025-01-09T02:22:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T00:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-bulawayo-dams-gain-only-4-percent-after-recent-heavy-rains-council-still-struggling-to-satisfy-water-demand\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T02:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T00:22:56","slug":"zimbabwe-bulawayo-dams-gain-only-4-percent-after-recent-heavy-rains-council-still-struggling-to-satisfy-water-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-bulawayo-dams-gain-only-4-percent-after-recent-heavy-rains-council-still-struggling-to-satisfy-water-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Bulawayo Dams Gain Only 4 Percent After Recent Heavy Rains, Council Still Struggling to Satisfy Water Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">BULAWAYO&#8217;S six sources of clean water have gained 4.53% after the recent heavy rains, council has revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Of the six, only Mtshabezi is above the 50% mark at 50.71%, meaning perennial water shortages are still a lived reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The country&#8217;s second largest city usually struggles to provide water to its 666,000 residents as its dams usually run dry before the onset of the rainy season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">A notice posted by the local authority indicated that Upper Ncema stood at 13.20% of its full capacity, Lower&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501080495.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&#8217;S six sources of clean water have gained 4.53% after the recent heavy rains, council has revealed. Of the six, only Mtshabezi is above the 50% mark at 50.71%, meaning perennial water shortages are still a lived reality. The country&#8217;s second largest city usually struggles to provide water to its 666,000 residents as its dams [&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":[258,256,3691,6158,7037,7617,13802,8130,257,6720,15767,44623,254,16401,6722,4686,421],"class_list":["post-188221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bulawayo","tag-council","tag-dams","tag-demand","tag-gain","tag-heavy","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-rains","tag-satisfy","tag-south-africa-today","tag-struggling","tag-water","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188221","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=188221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188221\/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=188221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}