{"id":61437,"date":"2025-10-06T00:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/61437\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T00:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:57:07","slug":"central-otago-areas-advised-to-conserve-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/61437\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Otago areas advised to conserve water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: Getty Images \" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tap_water_drop_getty_0_0.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ranfurly, Naseby and Omakau residents are advised to conserve water Photo: Getty Images <\/p>\n<p>Ranfurly has been added to areas in Central Otago advised to conserve water following heavy rain at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The district council said in a statement at 11am today that water\u00a0quality in several areas has been affected and its treatment plants were unable to produce clean water.<\/p>\n<p>Ranfurly has now been placed under a conserve water notice. Naseby and Omakau remain under notices issued yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The council said there are signs of\u00a0improvement, particularly in Ranfurly, where the water was starting to clear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our contractor is working hard to restore normal operations and we are confident that clean water production will resume soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the meantime, please reduce your water use as much as possible to help preserve stored supplies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please help us spread the word by sharing this message with neighbours, friends and wh\u0101nau.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The council thanked the public for its\u00a0support and understanding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ranfurly, Naseby and Omakau residents are advised to conserve water Photo: Getty Images Ranfurly has been added to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-61437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61437","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=61437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}