About 2500 Timaru households are on a boil water notice following heavy rain in the region.
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Due to high levels of silt in the water, a notice is in place for the Downlands and Te Moana rural water schemes.
Residents are being asked to boil their water for a least one minute before drinking, cooking and brushing teeth.
Upgrade works for these two water systems are planned.
Ashburton District mayor Neil Brown has not ruled out linking up with other councils for a scrap in the Wellington High Court over the mandating of Three Waters.
Port of Timaru workers have voted to strike in their pursuit of an eight percent general wage increase.
At stake is the future of the three council's combined $1.76 billion of ratepayer-funded three waters infrastructure servicing 200,000 people. It will have ramifications for all councils.
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