Residents urged to conserve water after pump station explosionJohn Hawkins/Stuff Fire, police and St John ambulance staff were at an incident at Myers Reserve on Myers St on Tuesday. A 25-year-old man was seriously injured in a pump station explosion in Invercargill on Tuesday afternoon. John Hawkins/Stuff Police, fire and St John ambulance staff were at an incident at Myers Reserve on Myers St on Tuesday. As a result of the explosion, the council issued an urgent notice, asking Invercargill and Bluff residents and businesses to conserve water. "We do have problems with distributing water within the Invercargill network and also down to Bluff, and we are asking all consumers to make strenuous efforts to conserve water.

Source: Stuff October 31, 2017 00:11 UTC