{"id":118830,"date":"2026-02-20T06:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118830\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T06:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:25:09","slug":"rawa-asks-customers-to-conserve-water-during-severe-drought-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118830\/","title":{"rendered":"RAWA asks customers to conserve water during severe drought | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 The Reading Area Water Authority is calling on its customers to voluntary reduce their water use by 10% to 15%.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the state&#8217;s Drought Task Force has elevated Berks County to a drought warning.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?fips_42011\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">latest update from the U.S. Drought Monitor<\/a> says most of Berks is in a &#8220;severe drought.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RAWA is asking people to stop all nonessential water use.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.readingareawater.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to its website,<\/a> the following are prohibited: watering of lawns and outdoor areas; watering golf courses; washing vehicles, paved surfaces or other outdoor areas; filling or topping off of pools; and serving water in eating places unless specifically requested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 The Reading Area Water Authority is calling on its customers to voluntary reduce their water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5627,24450,128,130,129,56379,56378,31623,56377],"class_list":["post-118830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-drought","tag-reading-area-water-authority","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-severe-drought","tag-u-s-drought-monitor","tag-water-conservation","tag-water-restrictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}