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New Zealand: Is Auckland's drinking water system stormproof?

Source(s): New Zealand Herald, the - APN Holdings NZ Limited
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By Phil Taylor

This time last year Aucklanders were a hair's breadth from having to boil their tap water due to a record rainstorm. With wild weather occurring more frequently, Phil Taylor asked Watercare's boss, Raveen Jaduram, how safe the system is.

It was called the Tasman Tempest. The storm dumped a month's worth of rain on Auckland and the Coromandel in a single day.

It cost insurers $62 million. Claimants included 6450 homeowners. Also at risk was Auckland's drinking water.

Aucklanders heeded calls to save water and few realised how close the city came to a boil-water notice, with all the reputational and economic consequences to the tourism sectors that come with it.

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Themes Urban risk and planning Water Critical infrastructure
Country and region New Zealand

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