{"id":753129,"date":"2026-06-22T07:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/753129\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T07:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:21:19","slug":"officials-ask-residents-to-conserve-water-after-heavy-downpour-in-edmonton-area-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/753129\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials ask residents to conserve water after heavy downpour in Edmonton area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f9a8d9a34347d6dd7dcd5a224dbb9862.jpeg\" alt=\"Drinking water is poured into a glass from a faucet in North Vancouver on July, 30, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jonathan Hayward - The Canadian Press\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"642\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> Drinking water is poured into a glass from a faucet in North Vancouver on July, 30, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jonathan Hayward &#8211; The Canadian Press  \u00b7 The Canadian Press    <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">EDMONTON \u2014 Heavy rains and localized flooding in and around the city of Edmonton have officials asking residents to conserve water as their systems reach capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">A water supply alert from the city says flooding and sewer backups have been reported in neighbouring areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">It says there could be more problems if its stormwater system continues to operate over capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Similar warnings are in place for nearby cities and towns such as St. Albert, Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Beaumont and Tofield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Utilities provider Epcor says on social media that customers should defer showering as well as running washing machines and dishwashers, and should cut back on toilet flushes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Environment Canada says up to 110 millimetres of rain fell in the area as of early Sunday evening, and another 40 millimetres is expected before tapering off Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 21, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drinking water is poured into a glass from a faucet in North Vancouver on July, 30, 2019. THE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,105143,38572,23752,33136,209967,944,105745],"class_list":["post-753129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-city-of-edmonton","tag-drinking-water","tag-edmonton","tag-north-vancouver","tag-stormwater-system","tag-the-canadian-press","tag-water-supply"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753129","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=753129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}