“What the council’s doing doesn’t seem to be working,” he said.
Ritchie’s partner is pregnant, and they needed to know exactly when the water was unsafe and when it had the all-clear.
He sometimes brought bottled water over from Wellington, where he worked, because he found it was often out of stock in the local supermarket following the instigation of a boil-water notice.
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Carterton resident Chris Saunders said the boil water situation was very frustrating and council should give people a deduction on their rates because of the “massive inconvenience” it had caused.
Another resident, Chris Saunders, who has a young child, said the family was finding it “very frustrating”.