A plea for Aucklanders to save water appears to have fallen on deaf ears.
On Tuesday Watercare asked people to take shorter showers and turn taps off while brushing their teeth to stave off a looming water shortage, after a record dry six months to June.
But the first figures from Watercare's consumption measurements show water use actually increased the next day - jumping from 413 million litres on Tuesday to 417 million litres on Wednesday.
However it was lower than the 425 million litres used on Monday.
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