{"id":14738,"date":"2020-02-20T10:18:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T01:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/20\/wellingtons-water-crisis-deepens-as-pollution-leaks-and-flooding-take-toll"},"modified":"2020-02-20T10:18:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T01:18:05","slug":"wellingtons-water-crisis-deepens-as-pollution-leaks-and-flooding-take-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14738","title":{"rendered":"Wellington&#8217;s water crisis deepens as pollution, leaks and flooding take toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City councillor says capital\u2019s water issues may be \u2018tip of the iceberg\u2019 for rest of country<\/p>\n<p>Wellington City Council has alerted Island Bay residents to another burst water pipe, frustrating the city\u2019s residents who are weary of harbour pollution, streets filled with brown sludge and some homes with no water at all.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the year the capital has had one water set-back after another. The iconic Oriental Bay was closed to swimmers on some of the hottest summer days due to dangerous levels of pollution, two major city wastewater pipes burst, dozens of homes lost water access, and streets were flooded due to worn-out infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/20\/wellingtons-water-crisis-deepens-as-pollution-leaks-and-flooding-take-toll\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City councillor says capital\u2019s water issues may be \u2018tip of the iceberg\u2019 for rest of countryWellington City Council has alerted Island Bay residents to another burst water pipe, frustrating the city\u2019s residents who are weary of harbour pollution, street&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,966,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-wellington","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14739,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14738\/revisions\/14739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}