Shortage of water over a long summer drought?
We, Waikato and Waipa people heard and read the article in the newspaper this morning, and the article was about Aucklanders is waiting for submissions to use our Waikato River. Because Jaffas’ (Aucklanders) is running out of the water despite their carelessness on using too much water and can not bother to save on water-wise regularly.
Mm, in Auckland, the population of people is growing faster than the councillors and the mayor’s thoughts and the poor planning on to combat the fast-growing infrastructure around Auckland city. Surrounding the largest Auckland city on both sides is the ocean via the beach. 
There is MUST BE someway to install more water pipelines from the sea into their WaterCare Service area. BUT they are not doing good jobs over planning such as motorways, housing problems, lack of pipelines, due to the fast-growing population each year. Yes, we gave them a limit of water. The Auckland Council is crying aloud for more water from our Waikato River. The article can be found here – Calls for Crown Intervention
As you see that Waikato and Waipa are facing drought, and we use the Waikato River by paying the cost. Now it is facing difficulty to get water from the Waikato River because the river is low, and we conserve the limit of our using water each day until the rain comes along. We pay water rates under $160.00 a year – under 90 cubic metres consumed (and Jaffas -Aucklanders pay water rates too). The water rates are for the services such as installing pipelines, cleaning dirty water, how much we use water daily, collecting water from the Waikato River, and so on.
Where the Waikato River runs from Lake Taupo to Port Waikato as outflows into the Tasman Sea? Port Waikato is under the Waikato Regional area, while Waiuku and Pukekohe are under Auckland city where the boundaries line run.
A bit of the history of Waikato Rivers under Tanui – Waikato.
For many years Tainui tribe have sought to re-establish their links to the river after the New Zealand Wars (see Invasion of the Waikato) and the subsequent confiscations of the 1860s, and are continuing negotiations with the New Zealand government. The Tainui iwi was advised not to bring a case for the river before the Waitangi Tribunal as they would not win. An out of court settlement was arranged and the deed of settlement signed by the Crown and Waikato-Tainui in August 2008 settled the raupatu claim to the Waikato River, although other claims for land blocks and harbours are still outstanding. Waikato-Tainui now have joint management of the river with the Waikato Regional Council. Waikato River
We were, fortunately, to learn from our grandparents even great-grandparents on collecting rainwater in their lives during the drought in 1945-1946, 1972, 2007-2008, 2010 and 2012-2013. Here is the drought data from NIWA – our Waikato. 
What can farmers prepare to do before the drought-hit in the future?
■ Build more dams.
■ Plant trees as feed.
■ Changthe e stock mix.
■ Improve irrigation
■ Leave grass longer.
According to the Stuff.co.nz online newspaper 2013 – I don’t think everyone read the papers or do not believe that there will be climate problem here in the future. Note the article posted in 2013, and we are in 2020.
Other warnings include:
Heat: Higher temperatures will mean an increase in demand for air-conditioning systems and, therefore, for electricity in summer. But there will be a reduction in demand for winter heating.
Flooding: More frequent intense winter rainfalls to increase the flooding by rivers, as well as flash flooding when urban drainage systems become overwhelmed.
Water: Water demand during hot, dry summers. Lower river flows in summer will aggravate water quality problems.
For us – we live in the lifestyle property with one solid PVC tank and another old concrete tank that can be used, but maybe for the future need as long we find some money to repair the tap. Recently I bought two blue drums and two portable water tanks four years ago. I noticed there had been changing in the seasons when I was doing gardening and watering the gardens and vegetable gardens. I prepared early than too late without costing us a lot of money to install pipe fittings. In the first photo – a 1000 water storage tank next to the downpipe from the gutter, and we have old downpipes and pieces of corner pipes from the old house. We will be doing this job before Autumn. In the second photo from a person who made it- next to the greenhouse which we have got one greenhouse (six walls sided) in our property. Two blue drums (200/250Litre) will be placed on each side of the greenhouse and use Flexi pipe tubes and other pieces hook up. The cost of buying Flexi pipe tubes would be around $8 for 6 metres. Budget Wise is more essential for us to.
My simple advice is to get thinking cap on and do the planning on saving water, prepare any water storage tanks before the next long drought in the future which you may never know instead complaining about the shortage of water everywhere and paying the high cost of the water rates.
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