{"id":176207,"date":"2017-05-22T15:54:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T13:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=176207"},"modified":"2017-05-22T15:54:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T13:54:57","slug":"western-cape-declared-a-disaster-zone-over-water-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/176207\/western-cape-declared-a-disaster-zone-over-water-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Cape declared a disaster zone over water shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Cape government has declared the entire province a disaster zone in order to deal with the ongoing drought, MEC Alan Winde said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The declaration was made to quicken the reaction time for the deployment of resources to tackle water scarcity, Winde told News24.<\/p>\n<p>The deceleration will be formally gazetted during the course of the week after it was adopted by the provincial cabinet last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Karoo and West Coast municipalities were previously declared a disaster zone in 2016, but the disaster zone has now been extended to the entire province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe disaster zone declaration will help municipalities deal with issues of blockages in the procurement process to tackle the ongoing drought,\u201d Winde said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/western-cape-declared-disaster-zone-over-drought-20170522\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to How much water SA municipalities lose\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/166083\/how-much-water-sa-municipalities-lose\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How much water SA municipalities lose<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Cape government has declared the entire province a disaster zone in order to deal with the ongoing drought, MEC Alan Winde said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":103727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-176207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176209,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176207\/revisions\/176209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}