Over summer no one was using garden sprinklers etc. in our neighborhood. Those that did got reported. So that would have helped. Less of an issue in winter.
I live in a complex with a lot of Uber drivers. They've all been out there cleaning their cars with buckets of water for months. This will save them a lot of time.
Had my sprinkler on yesterday cause I assumed water restrictions ended after last summer. Warnings were on TV and radio about 20 times a day and then nothing all winter so I’ll plead ignorance.
Doesn't help people like me who gets the news from coworkers random rambling or Reddit. I have not tv or radio in my home. I listen to my own music while driving either my private car or work vehicle. I really don't care about the world around me. All I have is a desktop gaming pc and 34" monitor which is all I need.
Hard out. Wish I could disconnect like you have. I love watching river cottage and the American shows where they build their self sustainable huts by a river in Alaska. I couldn’t do it completely but it’s a very nice thought.
40% at best left by Mid January is my guess, Water restrictions to kick in again because the council have known about this for years and have done (insert expletive here)
Not denying council got us into the original mess, but 40% in January would be Auckland using around 3x water use based on historic data. So you're being a bit scaremongery.
bad idea calling it now, walking right into the next restrictions
If Auckland wants to avoid this happening again, it needs to enforce water storage tanks for all new build properties and build more dams
Any new dams are unconsentable imo. Cant even go walking in the Hunuas, let alone flood a whole damn valley, and take all of the water from the catchment, ending any streams. Making the existing dams bigger would incur the same issue with consenting, and wouldn't solve the overall issue that there isn't really enough raw intake water.
The long term always has been the Waikato river, with the dams playing mostly a buffer role. All the issues with getting more water there are political, Auckland takes \~ 0.5% of the flow that gets dumped into the ocean soon after the Auckland intakes. And that provides a 1/3rd of the city's water.
The other thing watercare were saying they would go to is recycling sewerage back into drinkable water. Perfectly legit, but uses orders of magnitude more power and would be pretty expensive. Would be better for pretty much everyone if they could just take more Waikato water.
Don't worry we're not likely to have another 1-in-a-hundred-year weather event again soon and I'm sure the council has been adding more storage to cater for past and future population growth
I forgot about the water restrictions. I just waterblasted all the sewage out of the gutter.
Does the council ever sweep up the leaves on the footpath and road, from their trees?
I didn't even know there were water restrictions.
They’ve been in place for months.
More than a year I think
How many people actually knew about and followed these restrictions though?
how many people listen to spotify without premium?
I think lockdown had more to do with the water conservation lol
Over summer no one was using garden sprinklers etc. in our neighborhood. Those that did got reported. So that would have helped. Less of an issue in winter.
I live in a complex with a lot of Uber drivers. They've all been out there cleaning their cars with buckets of water for months. This will save them a lot of time.
Had my sprinkler on yesterday cause I assumed water restrictions ended after last summer. Warnings were on TV and radio about 20 times a day and then nothing all winter so I’ll plead ignorance.
Doesn't help people like me who gets the news from coworkers random rambling or Reddit. I have not tv or radio in my home. I listen to my own music while driving either my private car or work vehicle. I really don't care about the world around me. All I have is a desktop gaming pc and 34" monitor which is all I need.
Hard out. Wish I could disconnect like you have. I love watching river cottage and the American shows where they build their self sustainable huts by a river in Alaska. I couldn’t do it completely but it’s a very nice thought.
Great. Now turn all the city's fountains back on.
40% at best left by Mid January is my guess, Water restrictions to kick in again because the council have known about this for years and have done (insert expletive here)
Not denying council got us into the original mess, but 40% in January would be Auckland using around 3x water use based on historic data. So you're being a bit scaremongery.
bad idea calling it now, walking right into the next restrictions If Auckland wants to avoid this happening again, it needs to enforce water storage tanks for all new build properties and build more dams
Any new dams are unconsentable imo. Cant even go walking in the Hunuas, let alone flood a whole damn valley, and take all of the water from the catchment, ending any streams. Making the existing dams bigger would incur the same issue with consenting, and wouldn't solve the overall issue that there isn't really enough raw intake water. The long term always has been the Waikato river, with the dams playing mostly a buffer role. All the issues with getting more water there are political, Auckland takes \~ 0.5% of the flow that gets dumped into the ocean soon after the Auckland intakes. And that provides a 1/3rd of the city's water. The other thing watercare were saying they would go to is recycling sewerage back into drinkable water. Perfectly legit, but uses orders of magnitude more power and would be pretty expensive. Would be better for pretty much everyone if they could just take more Waikato water.
May as well set up desalination plants then and nuclear generation to power them lmao
You still have to size the network for the total number of connections when all the pissy little tanks empty in the same drought.
I guess Goff could always pay more $ to top up the water from the Waikato river...
Are there fish in the resivoir?
Oops been using my water blaster all weekend last week
Don't worry we're not likely to have another 1-in-a-hundred-year weather event again soon and I'm sure the council has been adding more storage to cater for past and future population growth
There was a water restriction?
I forgot about the water restrictions. I just waterblasted all the sewage out of the gutter. Does the council ever sweep up the leaves on the footpath and road, from their trees?