{"id":508,"date":"2011-07-18T18:32:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T18:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kicukiro-residents-angry-at-ewsa\/"},"modified":"2011-07-20T06:15:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T06:15:44","slug":"kicukiro-residents-angry-at-ewsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kicukiro-residents-angry-at-ewsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicukiro residents angry at EWSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{In the past two months, residents of Kicukiro  have been fetching water at  past midnight because during day the taps are dry. }} <\/p>\n<p>However, the Energy Water And Sanitation Authority (EWASA) denies any knowledge about the problem because to them, no complaints have been submitted at their major branches situated in the district.<\/p>\n<p>In the real sense this sounds as if someone has been sleeping on their job, because EWASA\u2019s uninformed director James Sano boasts that EWASA is extending its pipelines due to the rise in  water levels.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Sano\u2019s comment, affected residents seem not satisfied. Angry Patricia Uwabaho aged 59 from Isangano cell stresses that she has been waking up late at night to fetch water for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Uwabaho seemingly ill doesn\u2019t have a house help and stays with her grandchildren who are still minors to assist her. \u201cJust imagine we stay alert during the night as if we\u2019re waiting for robbers, it\u2019s really annoying because sometimes we fail to get water after a sleepless night,\u201d she remarked.<\/p>\n<p>In this situation, residents don\u2019t have a choice but to stay awake the whole night since during the day water is scarce. \u201cIn case one does a mistake and is taken away by slumber the following day is often a bizarre and among the consequences is that they either buy the water which is extremely costly or have to travel for miles to fetch water from streams,\u201d she remarked. <\/p>\n<p>However, many residents have acquired water storage containers yet the vulnerable can\u2019t afford the giant tanks for instance. So far Sano has assured the residents of a quick response. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{In the past two months, residents of Kicukiro have been fetching water at past midnight because during day the taps are dry. }} However, the Energy Water And Sanitation Authority (EWASA) denies any knowledge about the problem because to them, no complaints have been submitted at their major branches situated in the district. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"byline":[158],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","byline-b_igi_adm1n"],"bylines":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":1}],"contributors":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":1}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}