Despite the Tararua District Council's Pahiatua water bore now operating, residents are still being urged to conserve water.
On Monday the council imposed a total hosing ban and urged residents to conserve water as it took the precautionary measure of checking the integrity of the town's water bore and its components following the Kaikoura earthquake.
The bore was out of commission until all checks had been completed and in the interim, the town's water was sourced from the back-up river supply, which had been chlorinated.
Those preliminary checks have now been completed and the pump at the bore is operating effectively. However the council is limiting the flow from the bore in order to allow the water level within the well to recover, so the hosing ban and water conservation measures will remain in place.