Midday Report Essentials for Wednesday 21 August 2024

On today's episode, water tankers cannot be sent to areas of central Wellington who have no water, because authorities don't know how far the outage will spread, more than 600 political leaders from 72 councils are gathering in Wellington today for Local Government New Zealand's annual conference, power prices are being blamed for the loss of more than 200 jobs, as Winstone Pulp International closes two mills.