{"id":28309,"date":"2021-02-12T14:22:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T05:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/12\/ticking-time-bombs-otago-lead-scare-shines-light-on-new-zealands-ageing-water-infrastructure"},"modified":"2021-02-12T14:22:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T05:22:01","slug":"ticking-time-bombs-otago-lead-scare-shines-light-on-new-zealands-ageing-water-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28309","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ticking time bombs&#8217;: Otago lead scare shines light on New Zealand&#8217;s ageing water infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some towns have not been compliant with water standards in 20 years, according to Water NZ\u2019s Noel Roberts<\/p>\n<p>A lead contamination scare in a south Otago town is sounding water quality alarm bells around New Zealand, with one expert saying he would refuse to drink the water in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month Dunedin council<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/435807\/lead-contamination-40-times-acceptable-level-for-waikouaiti-water-sample\"> told the communities of Karitane and Waikouaiti<\/a> that their water supplies had been returning traces of lead up to 40 times the safe level.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/12\/ticking-time-bombs-otago-lead-scare-shines-light-on-new-zealands-ageing-water-infrastructure\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some towns have not been compliant with water standards in 20 years, according to Water NZ\u2019s Noel RobertsA lead contamination scare in a south Otago town is sounding water quality alarm bells around New Zealand, with one expert saying he would refuse t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1814,"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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","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\/28309","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\/1814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28310,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28309\/revisions\/28310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}