{"id":38127,"date":"2025-08-01T00:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/38127\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T00:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:35:10","slug":"durham-region-issues-mandatory-water-restrictions-for-northern-durham-orono-and-greenbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/38127\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham Region issues mandatory water restrictions for northern Durham, Orono and Greenbank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamradionews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beaverton-Water-tower-CO-canadawatertowers.jpg\" title=\"Durham Region issues mandatory water restrictions for northern Durham, Orono and Greenbank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"634\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Beaverton-Water-tower-CO-canadawatertowers-634x312.jpg\" class=\"left wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Region of Durham says a lack of rain and increased water demand during extreme heat is straining their water system.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve put in place mandatory water restrictions for northern Durham along with parts of Clarington and Greenbank.<\/p>\n<p>The restrictions are in effect for Beaverton, Cannington, Sunderland, Uxbridge, Port Perry, Blackstock, Orono and Greenbank.<\/p>\n<p>Residents and businesses need to stop all non-essential water use until further notice so the region can ensure there is enough water for emergencies. Some examples of non-essential water use include washing your car, cleaning your driveway or watering your lawn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamradionews.com\/archives\/200223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The same restrictions are currently in effect for Bowmanville<\/a> due to a maintenance issue with one of the three filters at the water treatment plant, but the region says these new restrictions are not related.<\/p>\n<p>File photo courtesy of Canada Water Towers<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mistape.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"mistape-link mistape-logo\"><\/p>\n<p>If you have found a spelling error, please, notify us by selecting that text and pressing Ctrl+Enter.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamradionews.com\/archives\/javascript:history.go(-1)\" class=\"button\" onmouseover=\"self.status=document.referrer;return true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Go Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Region of Durham says a lack of rain and increased water demand during extreme heat is straining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-38127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}