{"id":76253,"date":"2026-02-06T13:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/06\/wellington-sewage-leak-sea-new-zealand"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:05:22","slug":"horror-in-wellington-as-millions-of-litres-of-untreated-sewage-flow-into-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76253","title":{"rendered":"Horror in Wellington as millions of litres of untreated sewage flow into the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of New Zealand capital advised not to enter the water, collect seafood or walk their dogs on local beaches after wastewater plant failure<\/p>\n<p>A sewage leak in New Zealand\u2019s capital Wellington has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/585983\/catastrophic-failure-wellington-mayor-describes-plant-s-leak-as-environmental-disaster\">described<\/a> by local authorities as an \u201cenvironmental disaster,\u201d with repairs to the city\u2019s wastewater treatment plant expected to take months.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Wellington have been advised not to enter the water, collect seafood or even walk their dogs on local beaches.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/06\/wellington-sewage-leak-sea-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of New Zealand capital advised not to enter the water, collect seafood or walk their dogs on local beaches after wastewater plant failureA sewage leak in New Zealand\u2019s capital Wellington has been described by local authorities as an \u201cenvironm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76254,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76253\/revisions\/76254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}