Following advice from Power and Water, the Department of Health has issued a precautionary advice for drinking water for the Darwin and the greater Darwin region, including Palmerston. This is due to a disruption in the water supply as a consequence of Tropical Cyclone Marcus.

Power and Water Corporation has advised there are multiple water outages throughout the region and will attend to the faults as soon as it is safe to do so.

It is anticipated that a boil alert will remain in place for at least 48 hours.

In the meantime, the Department of Health recommends that, as a precaution, water for drinking, food preparation and oral hygiene be obtained from either packaged bottled water or by boiling tap water and allowing it to cool before using.

The Department of Health will lift the Precautionary Advice for Drinking Water (Water Boil Alert) once sampling results confirm that there are no bacteria present and the water is safe to drink.