On August 19 Council will finally resolve its water woes.

After a lengthly processes which involved initially looking at the 40 options considered over the past decade, we are down to 4. These will be discussed at a full council meeting (open to the public) and boils down to an option for a dam or an option to use excess water in the Waikanae River to recharge the bores for future use. The latter seems an elegant solution (and is the cheaper of the 2 identified here) and is much less environmentally damaging than a dam.