{"id":539940,"date":"2026-07-23T07:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/539940\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T07:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:07:17","slug":"essential-use-only-urgent-plea-to-save-water-in-wairarapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/539940\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Essential use only&#8217;: Urgent plea to save water in Wairarapa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Greytown and Featherston residents have been asked to use water for essential purposes only after damage to a water supply pipe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">By Emily Ireland, Local Democracy Reporter<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The South Wairarapa District Council said a water supply pipe feeding the water treatment plant had been damaged, and emergency repairs were under way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cThe water supply remains safe to drink, but water conservation is needed now so the remaining water reservoir level does not get too low,\u201d the council said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cPlease only use water for essential purposes such as drinking, cooking, hygiene and toilet flushing until at least 6pm tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The council said conserving water now would help maintain supply for everyone if repairs took longer than expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Businesses were asked to minimise non-essential water use where practical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The Greytown Volunteer Fire Brigade said contingencies were in place for its crews if significant water was required for firefighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u2013 LDR is local body journalism co-funded by RNZ and NZ On Air<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greytown and Featherston residents have been asked to use water for essential purposes only after damage to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,52],"class_list":["post-539940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}