{"id":75505,"date":"2025-08-17T03:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T03:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/75505\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T03:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T03:28:11","slug":"more-municipalities-provide-drinking-water-free-showers-for-residents-with-dry-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/75505\/","title":{"rendered":"More municipalities provide drinking water, free showers for residents with dry wells"},"content":{"rendered":"

More municipalities in Nova Scotia are offering free drinking water and showers for residents affected by the drought.\u00a0<\/p>\n

East Hants and West Hants join the Halifax Regional Municipality, which on announced on Wednesday\u00a0it would be make drinking water available and free<\/a> to residents with dry wells.<\/p>\n

Norval Mitchell, an East Hants\u00a0councillor, says residents from his district are concerned about\u00a0low water levels.<\/p>\n

“Some people just haven’t budgeted in for extra water during the drought conditions, so it’s always good to help your neighbours,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The municipalities are also recommending water conservation measures, like reducing the length and frequency of showers and avoiding outdoor water use, like watering lawns, washing vehicles\u00a0or filling swimming pools.<\/p>\n

“Everybody’s trying to get water and to just hopefully ride out the dry spell,” said Mitchell.\u00a0“There’s only so much water.”<\/p>\n

Residents of East Hants can use the showers at the aquatic centre in Elmsdale during normal operating hours. They can also pick up potable water by bringing hand-held containers to the same location.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hours to receive potable water are in East Hants are:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Monday to Saturday: 10\u00a0a.m.\u2013 8 p.m. Sunday: 10 a.m.\u2013 5 p.m.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

West Hants has\u00a0160 four-litre bottles of drinking water for immediate distribution, with an additional 960 jugs expected to arrive on Monday.<\/p>\n

Residents can get two 4-litre bottles of drinking water per household on Sunday at the Municipality of the District of West Hants office, in Windsor, between noon and 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

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Water companies struggle to meet demand as N.S. faces dry conditions<\/p>\n

Hot, humid weather and lower than expected rainfall is resulting in calls for some Nova Scotians to conserve water, and leaving water delivery companies stretched thin. Gareth Hampshire has the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More municipalities in Nova Scotia are offering free drinking water and showers for residents affected by the drought.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-75505","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\/75505","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=75505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}