{"id":66493,"date":"2026-05-29T18:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/66493\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:16:11","slug":"montreal-asks-residents-to-limit-water-use-as-emergency-repairs-needed-on-network-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/66493\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal asks residents to limit water use as emergency repairs needed on network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/595f9f1debdc2875e1268a9315fa6a67.jpeg\" alt=\"Cracked asphalt is shown next to a broken water main on a street in Montreal, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, causing flooding in several streets of the area. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Graham Hughes - The Canadian Press\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"605\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> Cracked asphalt is shown next to a broken water main on a street in Montreal, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, causing flooding in several streets of the area. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Graham Hughes &#8211; The Canadian Press  \u00b7 The Canadian Press    <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">MONTREAL \u2014 The city of Montreal is asking residents to reduce their water consumption over the next few weeks as it carries out emergency repairs to its aqueduct network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">In a news release, the city said three of its major conduits need to be shut off for several weeks as work is carried out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The move comes as Montreal&#8217;s festival season is about to kick off, when water use is at its highest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Residents are advised to comply with drinking water use bylaws, reduce lawn watering, avoid using water for outdoor cleaning, and modify their daily habits to reduce their drinking water consumption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The city will suspend or limit pipe and sewer flushing, fire hydrant flow tests, street washing and some decorative fountains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Alan DeSouza, member of the city&#8217;s executive committee responsible for infrastructure, says Montreal has to take preventive steps to avoid water main breaks like the one downtown in 2024 that flooded part of a neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 29, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cracked asphalt is shown next to a broken water main on a street in Montreal, Friday, Aug. 16,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28082,15962,50,989,16070],"class_list":["post-66493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-broken-water-main","tag-drinking-water","tag-montreal","tag-the-canadian-press","tag-water-consumption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}