{"id":3858,"date":"2016-09-22T06:24:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T06:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2016-09-22T06:37:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T06:37:35","slug":"cool-water-free-of-charge-for-any-passer-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/cool-water-free-of-charge-for-any-passer-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool water, free of charge for any passer-by"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3855\" style=\"width: 383px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3855\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3855\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Robinet-Down-town-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"On Avenue de l\u2019 Universit\u00e9, every passer-by can drink fresh water for free.\" width=\"373\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Robinet-Down-town-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Robinet-Down-town-600x516.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Robinet-Down-town.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Avenue de l\u2019 Universit\u00e9, every passer-by can drink fresh water for free.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At &#8220;Rutegama Downtown Jazz&#8221; hotel, on Avenue de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 (Bwiza side) is observed since the past few days, a queue of people, cups in hands, in front of a machine that gives water. Many of them are just bike-taxi users, children of the neighborhood; mechanics &#8230; Every passer-by is free to get a cup of cool water. A tap is erected next, to wash the cup before use.\u2028This is the initiative of Gilbert Nkurunziza, the boss of this hotel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is just a charitable act,&#8221; he said. He also indicated that water is to be drunk on the spot only.\u2028According to Nkurunziza, it is an avenue used by a lot of pedestrians, people of all classes (bike taxi users, builders, mechanics, children in the street, etc.). &#8220;They are often tired, they should at least get water&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>For him, it is difficult for a bike taxi user to buy water when he earns almost nothing.\u2028Gilbert Nkurunziza said the machine and all the plumbing cost him about a million Burundian francs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At &#8220;Rutegama Downtown Jazz&#8221; hotel, on Avenue de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 (Bwiza side) is observed since the past few days, a queue of people, cups in hands, in front of a machine that gives water. Many of them are just bike-taxi users, children of the neighborhood; mechanics &#8230; Every passer-by is free to get a cup of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,670],"tags":[686,792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3864,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/3864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}