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Chance of acute water shortage in Wellington increases (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 11 months ago by happy_piwakawaka to c/wellington

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The chance of Wellington experiencing an acute water shortage this summer has increased, while emergency water tanks sell out around the region.

New modelling from Wellington Water shows there is now a 33 percent chance of the region seeing an acute water shortage rather than a 24 percent chance that had been previously recorded.

Under that type of shortage, level 4 water restrictions would be brought into place which would ban all outdoor water use and reduce indoor water use by up to 50 percent.

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[–] happy_piwakawaka 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hearsay from a relative-of-a-friend-who-works-for-the-water-board is that they're looking at rolling outages to ensure supply.

[–] gibberish_driftwood 1 points 10 months ago

I think it'd be silly not to at least have that on the board for consideration as a possibility for how to manage things in certain circumstances, even if it's then ruled out or considered highly unlikely.