{"id":868909,"date":"2026-10-03T02:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868909\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T02:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:14:08","slug":"oxford-residents-urged-to-conserve-water-as-kerr-lake-levels-drop-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868909\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford residents urged to conserve water as Kerr Lake levels drop :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Oxford is urging residents and businesses to conserve water immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Oxford\u2019s water supply comes from the Kerr Lake Regional Water System, which has issued a mandatory conservation notice because of low water levels in Kerr Lake, the city said.<\/p>\n<p>City officials are asking customers to limit water use and avoid nonessential activities like watering lawns and gardens, washing vehicles and filling swimming pools.<\/p>\n<p>Residents also are encouraged to take shorter showers, repair leaks quickly and run dishwashers and washing machines only when full.<\/p>\n<p>The restrictions will stay in effect until the water levels in Kerr Lake improve, the city said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Oxford is urging residents and businesses to conserve water immediately. Oxford\u2019s water supply comes from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[19232,192,366362,38401,79,282],"class_list":["post-868909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-kerr-lake","tag-oxford","tag-science","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868909","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=868909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}