{"id":67060,"date":"2025-06-01T17:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T17:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67060"},"modified":"2025-06-02T05:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:51:09","slug":"fcta-shuts-two-plants-begins-water-rationing-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/01\/fcta-shuts-two-plants-begins-water-rationing-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Season of Thirst as FCTA Begins Water Rationing in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Cross Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has commenced water rationing across Abuja following the shutdown of two major treatment plants for urgent rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by the Minister\u2019s aide, Lere Olayinka, the FCTA disclosed that only two of the four water treatment plants are currently operational, as Phases 1 and 2 have been shut down for equipment upgrades by SCC Nigeria Limited.<\/p>\n<p>To manage the reduced capacity, the FCT Water Board will alternate water distribution between Lines 1 and 2 across the affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>However, the administration assured residents of a temporary restoration of full supply during the forthcoming Sallah celebration to ease the burden.<\/p>\n<p>The FCTA urged residents to store water and cooperate as the two-week rehabilitation work progresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cross Stone The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has commenced water rationing across Abuja following the shutdown of two major treatment plants for urgent rehabilitation. In a statement issued by the Minister\u2019s aide, Lere Olayinka, the FCTA disclosed that only two of the four water treatment plants are currently operational, as Phases 1 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67089,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67060\/revisions\/67089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}