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Critics say swimmers are left with less information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ipolitics.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/CP176598561.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"A lifeguard looks on from beside a station offering free life jackets to borrow, as people swim at Westboro Beach, in Ottawa, on Wednesday, July 8, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Justin Tang\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As Ottawa&#8217;s beaches fill with swimmers this summer, a debate is brewing over whether a once-a-week water testing gives residents enough information to judge when it&#8217;s safe to get in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ipolitics.ca\/2026\/07\/16\/ottawa-shifted-to-weekly-beach-water-testing-critics-say-swimmers-are-left-with-less-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">iPolitics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ottawa&#8217;s beaches fill with swimmers this summer, a debate is brewing over whether a once-a-week water testing gives residents enough information to judge when it&#8217;s safe to get in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15213411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15213409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15213409-cp176598561.jpg",2560,1698,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15213409-cp176598561-300x199.jpg",300,199,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15213409-cp176598561-620x411.jpg",620,411,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15213409-cp176598561-768x509.jpg",768,509,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15213409-cp176598561-940x623.jpg",940,623,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15213409-cp176598561-1536x1019.jpg",1536,1019,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15213409-cp176598561-2048x1358.jpg",2048,1358,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15213409-cp176598561-998x665.jpg",998,665,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15213409-cp176598561-670x446.jpg",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15213409-cp176598561-1340x894.jpg",1340,894,true],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15213409-cp176598561-510x510.jpg",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15213409-cp176598561-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15213409-cp176598561-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15213409-cp176598561-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15213409-cp176598561-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15213409-cp176598561-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15213409-cp176598561-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/news\/usa\/usa-politics\/\" rel=\"category tag\">USA Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"USA Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15213409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15213410,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213409\/revisions\/15213410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15213411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15213409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15213409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15213409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}