{"id":1892,"date":"2012-09-23T11:08:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T11:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2012-09-23T11:08:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T11:08:30","slug":"toilet-flushing-symphony-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1892","title":{"rendered":"Toilet-flushing symphony in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1893\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/overlandtoilet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1893\" title=\"overlandtoilet\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/overlandtoilet-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/overlandtoilet-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/overlandtoilet.jpg 581w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Probable Zimbabwean toilet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">City authorities in Zimbabwe\u2019s second largest city of Bulawayo, are appealing to home owners to flush their toilets at a specific time, in order to unblock sewers after days of severe water rationing. The \u2018big flush\u2019 time has been set for 7:30 pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bulawayo City Council has asked its 1.5 million residents to flush their toilets simultaneously when water supplies are restored. City officials say \u2018\u2018synchronized flushing\u2019\u2019 is needed to clear waste that would have accumulated in sanitary facilities \u2013 which will have been affected by days of water outages.<br \/>\nThe hope is that if everyone flushes together there is less chance of sewer blockages and pipe bursts, officials claimed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Simela Dube, the city\u2019s director of engineering, said: \u201cWe need to flush our toilets at the same time to push all the waste that will be just under the surface, as residents would be using little water to flush toilets during water shedding hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bulawayo\u2019s two main dams, supplying water to the city, have been drying up due to severe droughts in the southwestern part of Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After expelling whites, Zimbabwe&#8217;s formerly first-world infrastructure has been crumbling. Agricultural production has also plummeted, leading to a shortage of foreign exchange and funds necessary for maintaining essential services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City authorities in Zimbabwe\u2019s second largest city of Bulawayo, are appealing to home owners to flush their toilets at a specific time, in order to unblock sewers after days of severe water rationing. The \u2018big flush\u2019 time has been set for 7:30 pm. The Bulawayo City Council has asked its 1.5 million residents to flush &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1892\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toilet-flushing symphony in Zimbabwe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[1294,1293,1292,155,180],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-farmers","tag-infrastructure","tag-toilets","tag-whites","tag-zimbabwe"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/overlandtoilet.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}