{"id":524657,"date":"2026-03-09T14:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/524657\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:14:14","slug":"calgary-water-restrictions-in-effect-expected-to-remain-for-4-weeks-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/524657\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary water restrictions in effect, expected to remain for 4 weeks &#8211; Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Water restrictions are in effect for Calgary residents as the city begins reinforcement work on a major water main.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Bearspaw South Feeder Main <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11713401\/calgary-water-use-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">shut down<\/a> Monday for the project, which is expected to last roughly four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The feeder main normally supplies about 60 per cent of the city\u2019s water. During the shutdown, Calgary will rely on the smaller Glenmore Water Treatment Plant, which is operating at maximum capacity, for water.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo outdoor water use is permitted at this time. We\u2019re also asking Calgarians to take steps to reduce their indoor water use by 25 litres per person each day,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calgary.ca\/planning\/water\/bearspaw-feeder-main\/water-restrictions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">city said on its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy keeping our water demand below 500 million litres of water, we stay in the green zone. 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Ask the Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Book of World Records\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The city added that if it exceeds that daily limit, Calgary will be put at increased risk of insufficient water to fight fires, low water pressure and potential boil water advisories and\/or system failure resulting in no water.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended steps to limit water use include skipping toilet flushes, reducing showers to three minutes or less and only running dishwashers and washing machines with a full load.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Calgary<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Water restrictions are in effect for Calgary residents as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,206586,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-524657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-calgary-politics","11":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524657","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=524657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}