by wayno » Sun 18 Feb, 2018 8:29 am
part of the problem is people turn the tap on to check if theres water and if there isnt, they dont close it again..... one shelter someone removed the lid to the water tank to get to the remaining water and left the lid off, and it ended up with a lot of dead insects in it and it went yellow.
its hit and miss, the rain comes but on the Te araroa trail the huts arent made for the no's of people going through them now and the water runs out quickly, you can have up to 15 people at a 4 bunk hut on a lot of days. eating dehy food doesnt help. its summer, take something to eat that doesnt need as much water.... then people eat fatty food for more calories and to save weight, it takes ten times the amount of water to digest fat as it does to digest carbs and drives your thirst and water requirements right up....
kiwis arent smart at all. we're running underground aquefirs dry all over the place and polluting them and the water ways from farming.
they are ramping up irigtation to maximise intensification like thers no tomorrow with the water, we still get droughts in the east, in the rainshadow of the main ranges.... its an experiment thats going to end in disaster.
from the land of the long white clouds...