Water restrictions are in place in the Top End town of Katherine due to concerns about PFAS in drinking supplies.
Katherine households will be subject to compulsory water-saving measures, including only watering their lawns three days a week, and not watering hard surfaces.
Health Minister Natasha Fyles says the water supply remained safe to drink, but the precautionary move was designed to limit the amount of contaminated bore water used to boost supplies during the dry season. Read more.

Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of glass are being stockpiled and landfilled instead of being recycled. Industry insiders interviewed by ABC's Four Corners described an "unsustainable situation" with glass which has "nowhere to go" because there is "no viable market". Australia consumes about 1.36 million tonnes of glass packaging per year. Glass consumption is at its highest in NSW. One recycling company, Polytrade, has decided to go public in an effort to raise awareness about the issues being faced by industry due to what it describes as a failure of regulation. Read more.

A Timaru Herald report says that work is about to begin on an upgrade to the Army Bay wastewater treatment plant and the installation of major new outfall pipe. The project will see Watercare using a New Zealand-first technique to bore 45 metres below the ground on Defence Force land beside Shakespear Regional Park and use hydraulic jack to push the outfall pipe beneath the seabed off the Whangaparaoa Peninsula. There it will be connected to a pipe being floated from the Firth of Thames which will be sunk in place. The upgrade to the station includes a new pump station. Read more.