{"id":577739,"date":"2026-04-02T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577739\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:42:10","slug":"calgary-lifts-water-restrictions-after-3-weeks-as-work-continues-to-replace-pipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577739\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary lifts water restrictions after 3 weeks as work continues to replace pipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY \u2014 Water restrictions have been lifted in Calgary and surrounding communities as work continues to replace an ailing water main.<\/p>\n<p>Residents had been asked for more than three weeks to take shorter showers and reduce toilet flushes due to the shutdown of the Bearspaw South Feeder Main.<\/p>\n<p>The main provides 60 per cent of treated water for the area.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in Calgary, along with neighbouring communities, were asked to voluntarily cut back on water use to keep enough in reserve for emergencies like fighting fires.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the third time the city imposed water use limits in less than two years.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas has promised a replacement line will be ready by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 2, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 Water restrictions have been lifted in Calgary and surrounding communities as work continues to replace an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-577739","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-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577739","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=577739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}