29 March

Aucklanders singing in the rain while being waterwise!

The City of Sails (and umbrellas) may be receiving a good drenching this autumn but that hasn’t stopped Aucklanders from treating water as a precious resource. Yesterday, the city’s total water use was 404 million litres – only fractionally above the target of 400 million litres or less.

Watercare recognises that it may seem unusual to ask everyone to reduce their water use when it’s bucketing down with rain. But the city’s largest water treatment plant is operating at reduced capacity at the moment because of large amounts of silt in the Hunua Dams, following the Tasman Tempest on 7-8 March.

More than 40 electronic display signs have been put up all over the region to remind everyone to save 20 litres per day. The locations are changed frequently, so that motorists don’t become used to seeing the same notice each day.

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