{"id":192724,"date":"2026-10-04T19:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/?p=192724"},"modified":"2026-10-04T19:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:30:48","slug":"tepu-without-safe-drinking-water-after-damage-to-water-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/tepu-without-safe-drinking-water-after-damage-to-water-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Tepu without safe drinking water after damage to water supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap \" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; border-color: #ffffff;\">The<\/span> Indigenous community of Tepu in southern Suriname currently has no safe access to drinking water. According to Tra Fas De, the village&#8217;s water supply has been damaged, forcing residents to rely on water from the river.<\/p>\n<p>Bestuursopzichter Theo, the community&#8217;s contact person, reports that residents have complaints of diarrhoea and vomiting. It has not yet been established whether these health complaints are related to the use of river water.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the water quality is therefore urgently needed. The community also needs the damaged water supply to be repaired and access to safe drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>As long as the quality of the river water remains unknown and the water supply has not been repaired, the situation remains worrying for residents.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indigenous community of Tepu is dealing with a damaged water supply and is now possibly using contaminated river water, leading to health complaints such as diarrhoea and vomiting. Urgent investigation is needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":192718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_29234516172805655_1309923202201307":"","facebook_29234516172805655_1158244960706604":"","facebook_29234516172805655_1093738170500407":"","facebook_29234516172805655_108923581283702":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16333],"tags":[20426,16291,20032,16292,23397,20826],"class_list":["post-192724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-indigenous-peoples","tag-key-news","tag-nieuws","tag-suriname","tag-tepu","tag-water"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192771,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192724\/revisions\/192771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}