{"id":119048,"date":"2026-02-20T13:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/119048\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:32:09","slug":"reading-area-water-authority-calls-for-voluntary-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/119048\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Area Water Authority calls for voluntary conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Reading Area Water Authority is asking customers to voluntarily reduce their water use by 10% to 15%.<\/p>\n<p>The authority operates and maintains the water system for Reading, and North Heidelberg, Cumru and Kenhorst townships, and portions of Bern and Bethel townships.<\/p>\n<p>The authority on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingareawater.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website <\/a>said the request follows a move by the state to place Berks County under a drought warning.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Drought Monitor <a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?fips_42011\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">map<\/a> shows most of Berks in the \u201csevere\u201d drought category as of Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the following nonessential water uses are prohibited during this restriction:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Watering of lawns and outdoor areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Watering golf courses.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Washing vehicles, paved surfaces or other outdoor areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Filling or topping off pools.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Serving water in eating places unless specifically requested.<\/p>\n<p>The authority said it will notify customers when the restrictions are lifted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reading Area Water Authority is asking customers to voluntarily reduce their water use by 10% to 15%.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-119048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119048","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=119048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}