{"id":21495,"date":"2020-04-02T17:14:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T15:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=21495"},"modified":"2020-04-02T17:14:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T15:14:31","slug":"gweru-extends-water-rationing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gweru-extends-water-rationing","title":{"rendered":"Gweru extends water rationing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gweru City Council has turned down pleas by residents to stop water rationing during the 21-day lockdown meant to slow down the spread of COVID-19. Cornelia Selipiwe, the Gweru Residents and Ratepayers\u2019 Association director early this week pleaded with council to stop the tight water rationing introduced last year, stressing that water shortages would force residents not to abide by the lockdown.<span id=\"more-3096224744046806\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, mayor Josiah Makombe told SouthernEye that the water rationing would remain in force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirstly the reason for the water rationing was to ensure that we preserve the little water in our dams so that it lasts to the next rainy season. Secondly, technically we cannot afford to pump water to all areas at once. So yes the water rationing continues despite issues of the COVID-19,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are receiving water supplies about two days a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gweru City Council has turned down pleas by residents to stop water rationing during the 21-day lockdown meant to slow down the spread of COVID-19. Cornelia Selipiwe, the Gweru Residents and Ratepayers\u2019 Association director early this week pleaded with council to stop the tight water rationing introduced last year, stressing that water shortages would force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[1279,314],"class_list":{"0":"post-21495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-coronavirus-in-zimbabwe","10":"tag-water-shortage"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gweru extends water rationing - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gweru City Council has turned down pleas by residents to stop water rationing during the 21-day lockdown meant to slow down the spread of COVID-19.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gweru-extends-water-rationing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gweru extends water rationing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gweru City Council has turned down pleas by residents to stop water rationing during the 21-day lockdown meant to slow down the spread of COVID-19.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gweru-extends-water-rationing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-02T15:14:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/04\/GWERU-CITY-COUNCIL-543x330.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"729\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gweru-extends-water-rationing\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gweru-extends-water-rationing\",\"name\":\"Gweru extends water rationing - 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