{"id":227742,"date":"2016-07-04T06:30:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T06:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=227742"},"modified":"2016-07-04T06:30:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T06:30:59","slug":"water-shortage-hits-tamale-metropolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=227742","title":{"rendered":"Water shortage hits Tamale Metropolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of the Northern Regional capital Tamale are grappling with acute water shortage for almost two weeks in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;wdCRmIb5BZ4JWMGCsMhMYnVN1K0aA7X9&#8243;]The recurring problem is said to be affecting socio-economic activities in the area.<\/p>\n<p>It will affect the upcoming Eidul fetir celebration scheduled for Wednesday July 6 if it remains unresolved.<\/p>\n<p>The erratic rain pattern has worsened the situation because some community dams and hand dag wells have dried up.<\/p>\n<p>Dohin-naayili, Kukuo, Koblimahigu, Aboabo, Changli, Jakarayili, Aboabo, Zogbeli and Lamashegu are some of the affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to establish contact with the Northern Regional Communications Director of the Ghana Water Company Limited, Nicolas Nii Abey on phone have been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of the Northern Regional capital Tamale are grappling with acute water shortage for almost two weeks in some areas. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;wdCRmIb5BZ4JWMGCsMhMYnVN1K0aA7X9&#8243;]The recurring problem is said to be affecting socio-economic activities in the area. It will affect the upcoming Eidul fetir celebration scheduled for Wednesday July 6 if it remains unresolved. The erratic rain pattern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":227743,"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":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227742","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/227743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}