With Southland under a state of emergency, a remote town's water treatment plant has stopped working, leaving eight hours' drinking water in the reservoir. Follow RNZ's liveblog.
West Coast Emergency Management (WCEM) are advising people to keep updated on the weather over the next few days with the MetService forecasting up to 450mm over the next two days for the Westland district. This is in addition to severe weather conditions, .
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