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Public outraged at Wellington water system's failures

07:50 am on 17 February 2020

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Wellington's water system has been labelled "in crisis" and needing a fundamental overhaul.

Hundreds of Island Bay residents have repeatedly gone without water for long periods in recent days after an old water main burst.

It comes after two other major failures with the capital's sewerage system in recent months.

Hamish Cardwell went to a public meeting about the latest outage and filed this report.