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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
Praveen Menon, Kirsty Needham and Tom Westbrook

New Zealand water ship unloads in Tonga as other aid trickles in

Royal New Zealand Navy's HMNZS Aotearoa sails in the sea off the coast of Tonga, January 21, 2022. New Zealand Defence Force/Handout via REUTERS

Life-saving water supplies from a New Zealand navy ship were distributed across Tonga's main island on Friday, as other countries battled the logistics of delivering aid to one of the world's remotest communities.

Six days after the South Pacific archipelago was devastated by a volcanic eruption and tsunami that deposited a blanket of ash and polluted its water sources, the HMNZS Aotearoa docked in the capital, Nuku’alofa.

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