The has been chatter on other gentailer threads regarding the current heavy rains and the prospect of them easing the current hydro storage situation in the South Island.
Most of the water Meridian uses comes from spill over of West Coast rain into the headwaters of the Southern Alps. Meridian watchers please remember this misquotation from George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion;
"The rain on the plain is rarely Meridians gain."
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Marilyn