{"id":233396,"date":"2026-01-14T21:15:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/233396\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T21:15:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:15:04","slug":"calgary-expected-to-provide-updated-timeline-on-weeks-long-water-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/233396\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary expected to provide updated timeline on weeks-long water restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Calgarians who have been rationing water for more than two weeks could learn today when those rules may be lifted.<\/p>\n<p>City officials are slated to update the timeline on ending the voluntary cutbacks this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Watch LIVE above at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have been asking residents to take shorter showers and reduce toilet flushes to cut back on what they have labelled &#8220;unsustainable&#8221; water use.<\/p>\n<p>A key, but precarious, water main ruptured just before New Year&#8217;s Eve, forcing the city to plug the pipe for repairs and set restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>It is the water line&#8217;s second fracture in the past two years and has drawn criticism of both current and former city leadership for not taking preventative action.<\/p>\n<p>The city says the water main is now reconnected to the city&#8217;s water network and will begin bringing water through from a connected treatment plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-233396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}