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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>Windhoek, March 18\u2013 The city of Windhoek on Friday, announced the closure of free water and reinstatement of prepaid water supply in the informal settlement. \u201cResidents will be required to use their water tokens to get water, as done previously, and those who have lost their water tokens should buy new ones from their nearest municipal offices\u201d. Reads a statement<\/p>\n

The Free water supply was initiated by the City of Windhoek after The Namibian President, Dr. Hage G. Geingob declared a state of emergency on 17 March 2020, which introduced measures such as the closure of all borders, suspension of gatherings, and economic related resolutions due to COVID 19. However, the supply of free water has caused a financial burden to Council, Prompting to stop it.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Namibia. Windhoek, March 18\u2013 The city of Windhoek on Friday, announced the closure of free water and reinstatement of prepaid water supply in the informal settlement. \u201cResidents will be required to use their water tokens to get water, as done previously, and those who have lost their water tokens should buy new ones […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":15274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-15275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"\nNo More Free Water in Windhoek Informal Settlements - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Windhoek, March 18\u2013 The city of Windhoek on Friday, announced the closure of free water and reinstatement of prepaid wat ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-more-free-water-in-windhoek-informal-settlements\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No More Free Water in Windhoek Informal Settlements\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Windhoek, March 18\u2013 The city of Windhoek on Friday, announced the closure of free water and reinstatement of prepaid wat ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-more-free-water-in-windhoek-informal-settlements\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Namibia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-19T15:56:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-19T19:16:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/03\/img-62362c08d5fa9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"479\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-more-free-water-in-windhoek-informal-settlements#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-more-free-water-in-windhoek-informal-settlements\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"No More Free Water in Windhoek Informal Settlements\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-19T15:56:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-19T19:16:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-more-free-water-in-windhoek-informal-settlements\"},\"wordCount\":142,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-more-free-water-in-windhoek-informal-settlements#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/03\/img-62362c08d5fa9.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"africa press\",\"Africa Press-Namibia\",\"namibia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-more-free-water-in-windhoek-informal-settlements#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-more-free-water-in-windhoek-informal-settlements\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-more-free-water-in-windhoek-informal-settlements\",\"name\":\"No More Free Water in Windhoek Informal Settlements - 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