New Zealand’s longest river is the Waikato River, which runs down for 425 kilometres until it meets and flows out into the sea; not only is this the longest river in New Zealand, but it is also one of the most polluted waterways in the whole entire nation. The Waikato River start at Lake Taupo, and in a study (Waikato Regional Council, n.d.) showed that the clarity of the water passes 10 metres far in the beginning, this quickly shifts very shortly beyond Lake Taupo. Even just by the Ohaaki Bridge, the clarity of the water is awfully diminished to four metres. As we go farther onward, the water becomes progressively murkier. At Tuakau Bridge, where most of Auckland’s water supply is extracted from, when a person steps in the water at just
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According to Orsman, B. (2002) from 2002, approximately seventy five million litres of water has been acquired at Tuakau daily, it is filtered and travels thirty eight kilometres to get to Auckland, it is then fused with its own water, and makes eight percentage of the city’s water demand in the years 2010 and 2011. At the end of 2012, this rose to one hundred and twenty five litres, then it was increased another 30 million litres the following year (Thompson, W. 2013). The statistics makes it obvious that the city’s necessity for rising amount of water is swiftly increasing, if what is extracted from Tuakau is not filtered and cleaned to a high measure, it could easily get the residents in Auckland ill. A case from only a short time back, The New Zealand Herald (2014) reported people in West Auckland found an “earthy” taste from their tap water. This was due to the water supply having algal bloom in their dam because of the warmth in the weather that triggered this to occur. Although inspections had been conducted to check the water, it was not discovered until reports were called in. This event demonstrates the flaws and imperfection of the water treatment which can possibly lead to
According to Orsman, B. (2002) from 2002, approximately seventy five million litres of water has been acquired at Tuakau daily, it is filtered and travels thirty eight kilometres to get to Auckland, it is then fused with its own water, and makes eight percentage of the city’s water demand in the years 2010 and 2011. At the end of 2012, this rose to one hundred and twenty five litres, then it was increased another 30 million litres the following year (Thompson, W. 2013). The statistics makes it obvious that the city’s necessity for rising amount of water is swiftly increasing, if what is extracted from Tuakau is not filtered and cleaned to a high measure, it could easily get the residents in Auckland ill. A case from only a short time back, The New Zealand Herald (2014) reported people in West Auckland found an “earthy” taste from their tap water. This was due to the water supply having algal bloom in their dam because of the warmth in the weather that triggered this to occur. Although inspections had been conducted to check the water, it was not discovered until reports were called in. This event demonstrates the flaws and imperfection of the water treatment which can possibly lead to