{"id":628005,"date":"2026-05-07T02:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/628005\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:21:14","slug":"over-a-dozen-charlotte-area-municipalities-under-mandatory-water-restrictions-list-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/628005\/","title":{"rendered":"Over a dozen Charlotte-area municipalities under mandatory water restrictions: List here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) &#8211; With part of the Charlotte region in \u201cexceptional\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?NC\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?NC\">drought<\/a> and the rest in \u201cextreme\u201d drought, many cities, towns and counties have ordered mandatory water restrictions for residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The goal of such restrictions is generally to reduce water use by 5-10%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Below is a list of those utilities and municipalities that have implemented the mandatory restrictions:<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Water customers (starting May 15)Iredell Water customersCity of Gastonia residentsCity of Lenoir residentsCity of Morganton residentsCity of Hickory residentsCity of Statesville residentsTown of Granite Falls residentsTown of Mooresville residents (starting May 8)Alexander County residentsBurke County residentsCaldwell County residentsCatawba County residentsLincoln County residentsCity of York, S.C. residentsTown of Fort Mill, S.C. residentsTown of Clover, S.C. residents<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Also Read:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/05\/02\/major-north-carolina-cities-impose-mandatory-water-rules-what-it-means-whos-affected\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/05\/02\/major-north-carolina-cities-impose-mandatory-water-rules-what-it-means-whos-affected\/\"> Major North Carolina cities impose mandatory water rules: What it means and who\u2019s affected<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) &#8211; With part of the Charlotte region in \u201cexceptional\u201d drought and the rest in \u201cextreme\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[108264,15755,15229,192,78956,20835,271677,2255,3,2256,1474,24338,77817,46959,3421,79,7157,10704,282,2986,3447],"class_list":["post-628005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-caught","tag-charlotte","tag-drought","tag-environment","tag-happens","tag-latest","tag-mandatory","tag-nc","tag-news","tag-north-carolina","tag-not","tag-rain","tag-restrictions","tag-save","tag-saving","tag-science","tag-update","tag-updates","tag-water","tag-weather","tag-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}