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| Thread ID: 149051 | 2020-06-04 07:51:00 | Filthy Water | piroska (17583) | PC World Chat |
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| 1469293 | 2020-06-05 02:10:00 | Most of Aucklands water comes from Hunua (Cossey Dam), Waitakere (Dam) Ranges, Waikato River and of course groundwater and springs. It's still a limited resource and the Waikato provides roughly a third of Aucklands water needs, daily. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 1469294 | 2020-06-05 02:16:00 | Don't Auckland take some of their water from the Waikato river? So they might have a limited amount each day but it won't run out exactly. It's in that document....also been on the news. And on watercares website. Where, how, etc. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1469295 | 2020-06-05 04:33:00 | Don't Auckland take some of their water from the Waikato river? So they might have a limited amount each day but it won't run out exactly. Yes, lack of FUTURE planning. The head of watercare was on the radio & admitted this. He said when they built the Waikato pipeline etc , they purposely didnt allow for Ak's future water needs . because why build (and pay) for the future in advance (thats more or less what he said) . As is , the Waikato pipeline doesnt have anywhere near the needed capacity , and we still dont have resource consent to draw any more from the Waikato regardless . Same old thing. Build only for what we need now (usually not even that) . Do it as cheap as poss with no redundancy . In Ak , what could have been done is use the storm water tanks , that so many Ak's are Forced to install on new builds . But Ak Watercare & the council actually dont allow this ... because Local govt want monopolies & the $ they make off it. Cant charge for water if we are supplying our own water for free . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1469296 | 2020-06-05 21:36:00 | My thread isn’t about Auckland...which has lovely ph neutral, clean water. It's here with our filth. Our council is almost as bad as the nutters in Ch/ch......... |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1469297 | 2020-06-06 00:02:00 | Yes plenty of chlorine in my water (Chch) and still got ill tasting water (dirty-earth taste) which if you leave it pooling anywhere will produce a yellow scum which grows on any surface ie toilet bowl, wash hand basin round plug hole, kitchen sink draining tray, round bases of taps. I have to keep pouring boiling water over the surfaces to kill the "whatever it is". | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1469298 | 2020-06-06 00:37:00 | If you want to see and taste dodgy water then I suggest you try most anywhere in Australia. ;) I remember a few years ago the Queen and Prince Philip were visiting and Prince Philip asked “Do all your rivers flow upside-down?” Didn’t go down well at all, but he had a point. :D |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1469299 | 2020-06-06 01:02:00 | My thread isn’t about Auckland...which has lovely ph neutral, clean water. It's here with our filth. Our council is almost as bad as the nutters in Ch/ch......... www.stuff.co.nz Fingers crossed. It's been horrible to not have proper clean water! Will have to start lynching bureaucrats if the mass poisoning is further extended. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1469300 | 2020-06-06 04:32:00 | It amazes me the number of people who have no chemistry knowledge at all. Chlorine isn't the problem. That kills nasty germs, like campylobacter. The issue is nitrates, manganese, hard water, soft water.....all of which can be fixed with treatment. But people want "pure", it isn't pure, it's full of stuff. Idiots. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1469301 | 2020-06-06 05:53:00 | When I was a child the family had a “Batch” in the Mamaku Forest. There was no reticulated power, water, or telephone, so the water supply was courtesy of rainwater off the Batch roof and a large corrugated iron holding tank on a platform to give a little pressure. My job when on holiday was to climb up the tank stand with a butterfly net and carefully skim anything that was floating off the top. One had to be particularly careful with decomposing birds and mice. ;) However, the cold water tap had a gauss filter to collect the remains of anything that had eluded me and when the water stopped running you just removed and cleaned the filter. This could happen two or three times a day, with drowned possums being the biggest offenders. Yep, “Watercare” in the Mamaku’s was not much better than Napier. :D |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1469302 | 2020-06-06 07:03:00 | Have to speak up as a Napier resident of nearly 60 years. I actually rang the council and told them that the water tastes terrible, taints the food when cooking, leaves a residue in the shower, changes our nice white sheets to a pale brown occasionally. Really terrible state of affairs. As it tasted better before they added chlorine to it so saying there was a faecal count that was to high, I suggested they add a small amount of shite so as to return it to the previous state. When we first built in Taradale when we moved back from Auckland we were on bore water which was superb. However they capped all the bores in the 80's but the water was just as good. Due to contamination in Havelock North 5 years ago, 15Km away they got all politically correct and started with the bloody chlorine. They say it is the chlorine that has shaken all the crap of the inside of the pipes. Grrr :( :( Ken Not very happy chappies down here. Our new Mayor was going to sort it out. She was e!ected on that promise. Still waiting. By the way, we sit above one of the biggest aquifers in the North Island. Beautiful clean lovely tasting water down there!!! |
kenj (9738) | ||
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