This depends on your situation. There are many families on the Mountain who have no need for local deliveries. No Crisis.

However, there are those who require a local delivery every so often. Potential crisis.
What can you do?
The only solution is to get to know your tank. Know your weekly usage and order early. If your tank is half empty, order now. The wait time is getting longer.
What else can be done?
We have local deliverers x 2 and local suppliers x 2. When I first arrived on the Mountain, we had 6 local suppliers.
Some suppliers have ceased for personal reasons. Some have been stopped by Council because they got greedy and started to export water off the Mountain. Some found a legal loophole and now extract off the Mountain rather than suppling our local deliverers.
I congratulate the local suppliers who have remained loyal to the Community.
We need more local suppliers. I have contacted one identity who may be able to supply water for the locals.
I await their response.
Can Council not sink a bore at the Sports Centre and put in a standpipe for use in emergencies? Apparently, there are problems with this suggestion, but the problems cannot be explained.
In times of emergency, potential local suppliers can enact section 166 paragraph 4 of the Planning Act and supply water. This was last done when I was a Councillor in 2016, I think.
I asked two potential local suppliers to enact this provision. Council, for the first time, reacted very swiftly and shut them down using a Show Cause Notice. The current Mayor, Greg Christensen, was alleged to have said “there is no water emergency on the Mountain. Residents can order water from off the Mountain suppliers”.
Can the State Government assist?
Unfortunately not, or at least until the Mountain is declared a Water Management Area. If this occurs, the State Government might be able to order a cessation to off-the-mountain water extraction in times of drought, providing an opportunity for the bores of local suppliers to replenish quicker.
This is where the QUT 3-year study was supposed to play a vital part. That study has been completed but the Council will not release the results. Why not? So far, they have not provided an explanation.
Summary
For some, there is a water crisis, and authorities cannot bury their heads in the sand. They have to offer reasonable solutions.
Nigel Waistell
Cr Div 1
2012 to 2020