{"id":340637,"date":"2025-10-29T11:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/340637\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:23:14","slug":"northampton-county-residents-asked-to-reduce-water-use-heres-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/340637\/","title":{"rendered":"Northampton County residents asked to reduce water use. Here&#8217;s where"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A water utility is asking some Northampton County residents to voluntarily conserve water after several months of dry weather.<\/p>\n<p>Customers in the Nazareth service area are asked to reduce their water usage to avoid a more serious problem if dry weather continues, Pennsylvania American Water said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The notice applies to customers in Bushkill, Easton, Forks, Lower Nazareth, Nazareth, Palmer, Pen Argyl, Plainfield, Stockertown, Tatamy, Upper Nazareth, Washington Township and Wind Gap.<\/p>\n<p>The company recommends eliminating the following things to reduce water usage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watering lawns, gardens, trees, shrubs or any other plants except by hose or container<\/li>\n<li>Using water to wash paved surfaces<\/li>\n<li>Water use for ornamental purposes, such as fountains<\/li>\n<li>Water use for cleaning vehicles<\/li>\n<li>Serving water in clubs or restaurants unless specifically requested<\/li>\n<li>Using water to flush sewers unless deemed necessary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The voluntary water conservation request is in effect until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>The last few months have been particularly dry in the Lehigh Valley. <a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?PA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The U.S. Drought Monitor,<\/a> which tracks and displays drought conditions in the country, showed most of the region is under moderate drought conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A water utility is asking some Northampton County residents to voluntarily conserve water after several months of dry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":340638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[746,728,167792,50,99112,2830,159,3101,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-340637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-nazareth","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northampton-county","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-top-stories-tmc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}