Tuvalu, Tokelau nearly out of drinking water
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Families in Tuvalu's capital, Funafuti, are being allowed only two buckets of water a day as the drought continues.
The government estimates the country has five days of drinking water left.
Tuvalu is bringing in more fresh water on ships.
Andrew McKie from Red Cross New Zealand said two portable desalination plants have also been brought in to help alleviate the water shortage.
"They were transported to an island right in the south of Tuvalu, Nookilaulau, which although it's a small island was one of the ones worst affected by the drought," he said.
"It's got a population of about 390 people and they were virtually running out of water when the plants arrived so these plants can generate fresh water, about 3000 litres of fresh water a day".
In the New Zealand terrirtory of Tokelau, which comprises three tiny coral atolls and is home to about 1400 people, there is now under a week's water supply left.
The New Zealand defence force is today flying water containers to American Samoa.
They will then be taken to Tokelau aboard a US coastguard ship which has an onboard desalination plant.
Tuvalu and Tokelau have both declared a state of emergency over the water shortage.
"Resettling"
Meanwhile, the Uniting Church says Australia may need to consider resettling people from the Pacific in the future, with a number of the island nations in the grip of a serious drought.
Bruce Mullen, from the Uniting Church of Australia's Pacific division, has told Pacific Beat that the severe water shortage shows how vulnerable low lying atoll countries like Tuvalu, Tokelau and Kiribati are to environmental threats.
He says now is the time for neighbours like Australia to help with a long-term plan for communities that will be displaced.
"The long term issue is that some of these atoll islands are not going to be sustainable for human habitation indefinitely. So the long-term issue is how we address relocation - there's nothing worse than having to dislocate people as a matter of urgency and trauma. It's much better to think these things through with a bit of time."
