{"id":314316,"date":"2022-02-12T09:21:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T07:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=314316"},"modified":"2022-02-12T09:21:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T07:21:24","slug":"water-pipe-bursts-close-to-brakwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=314316","title":{"rendered":"Water pipe bursts close to Brakwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>NAMWATER has announced that a water pipe close to the weighbridge near Brakwater broke on Thursday night, which could affect water flow to certain areas.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is actually no reason for panic because most of the reservoirs of Windhoek are above 50%,\u201d NamWater\u2019s spokesperson Johannes Shigwedha said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He further stated that only the areas between the weighbridge and NamWater Windhoek Terminal Reservoir will be affected.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>According to Shigwedha, it could take up to 12 hours to fix the pipe, but the NamWater team has already started working on it.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only problem is, the place is wet. So, we have to pump that water out and bring in some new sand before we can actually start with the actual work,\u201d Shigwedha stated.<\/p>\n<p>File photo for illustrative purposes only.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter NAMWATER has announced that a water pipe close to the weighbridge near Brakwater broke on Thursday night, which could affect water flow to certain areas. \u201cThere is actually no reason for panic because most of the reservoirs of Windhoek are above 50%,\u201d NamWater\u2019s spokesperson Johannes Shigwedha said. 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