{"id":186196,"date":"2016-02-01T16:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=186196"},"modified":"2016-02-01T16:00:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T16:00:49","slug":"new-sachet-water-price-yet-to-be-fully-implemented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=186196","title":{"rendered":"New sachet water price yet to be fully implemented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Citi News<\/strong> checks in some\u00a0parts of the national capital, Accra, indicates that\u00a0the price of sachet water is yet to go up despite an\u00a0announcement that a 10 pesewa increase would come into effect from Monday, February 1, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The President of the Association of Sachet and Packaged Water Producers, Magnus Nunoo, <strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2016\/01\/25\/ghanaians-to-pay-30p-for-pure-water-price-could-further-increase\/\">announced the increment<\/a><\/span><\/strong> last week citing recent 67.2% increase for water as well as\u00a0increases in the prices of petroleum products.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed their disappointment in the\u00a0Public Utilities Regulatory Commission\u2019s (PURC) decision to make producers of sachet water pay GHc50 for a cubic meter of water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0checks on Monday, February 1, shows that a single sachet water still sells\u00a0at the original price of 20 pesewas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News<\/strong>` Eugenia Tenkorang was on the streets, and spoke to some vendors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full report below<\/strong><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-186196-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/PURE-REPORT.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/PURE-REPORT.mp3\">http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/PURE-REPORT.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citi News checks in some\u00a0parts of the national capital, Accra, indicates that\u00a0the price of sachet water is yet to go up despite an\u00a0announcement that a 10 pesewa increase would come into effect from Monday, February 1, 2016. The President of the Association of Sachet and Packaged Water Producers, Magnus Nunoo, announced the increment last week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}