{"id":17314,"date":"2026-08-17T22:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/fact-check\/coupure-deau-a-mbuji-mayi-leau-serait-empoisonnee\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T22:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:16:19","slug":"coupure-deau-a-mbuji-mayi-leau-serait-empoisonnee","status":"publish","type":"vc_factcheck","link":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/fact-check\/coupure-deau-a-mbuji-mayi-leau-serait-empoisonnee\/","title":{"rendered":"Water cut in Mbuji-Mayi: claims that water is poisoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A factual event \u2014 the outage \u2014 was turned into a health alert.<\/p>\n<p>REGIDESO announced a scheduled 36-hour interruption for station filter maintenance. Control analyses carried out after the service was restored have been forwarded to the editorial team.<\/p>\n<p>What is misleading: linking maintenance work to poisoning. However, caution is advised: when supply resumes, cloudy water may come out of the taps and should be left to run for a few minutes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REGIDESO did indeed carry out a temporary cut-off to clean the filters. The water distributed after treatment contains no toxic substances: the rumour distorts a real fact.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_vc_claim":"L'eau de la REGIDESO \u00e0 Mbuji-Mayi contiendrait du poison, il ne faudrait plus la boire.","_vc_claim_original":"Nanku mwayi wa REGIDESO mu Mbuji-Mayi udi ne sumu, kukanwa to.","_vc_verdict":"misleading","_vc_language":"lu","_vc_region":"Mbuji-Mayi (Kasa\u00ef-Oriental)","_vc_virality":58,"_vc_sources":"REGIDESO \u2014 Avis de coupure programm\u00e9e | https:\/\/www.regideso.cd\/\nDivision provinciale de la Sant\u00e9, Kasa\u00ef-Oriental | https:\/\/sante.gouv.cd\/\nRadio Okapi \u2014 Entretien du r\u00e9seau \u00e0 Mbuji-Mayi | https:\/\/www.radiookapi.net\/","_vc_audio_claim":"","_vc_audio_verdict":"","_vc_submission_id":0,"_vc_reviewed_by":2,"_vc_reviewed_at":"2026-08-29 22:16:19","_vc_ai_assisted":0,"_vc_keywords":"","_vc_channel":"","footnotes":""},"vc_language":[181],"vc_verdict":[186],"vc_topic":[189],"vc_region":[197],"class_list":["post-17314","vc_factcheck","type-vc_factcheck","status-publish","hentry","vc_language-lu","vc_verdict-misleading","vc_topic-sante","vc_region-mbuji-mayi-kasai-oriental","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/factchecks\/17314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/factchecks"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/vc_factcheck"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/factchecks\/17314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"vc_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vc_language?post=17314"},{"taxonomy":"vc_verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vc_verdict?post=17314"},{"taxonomy":"vc_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vc_topic?post=17314"},{"taxonomy":"vc_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualiteafrique.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vc_region?post=17314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}