The Waikato River is New Zealand’s longest river, running 425 km from Mt Ruapehu to the Tasman Sea at Port Waikato. Since 2002, the Waikato River has also been part of Auckland’s water supply network, providing an average of 37,000 m3 of water to the region each day, meeting between eight per cent and 15 per cent of the area's annual needs, depending on weather conditions and dam levels. At times during the 2013 drought, the Waikato was supplying almost 30 per cent of Auckland’s water (less than one per cent of the river’s volume).
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If you love fly fishing there’s no better place that the Waikato River. Try the Little Waipa Stream, or the Kaniwhaniwha Stream in the Pirongia Forest Park. The Pokaiwhenua River, which enters Lake Karapiro below Lake Arapuni, also has good populations of rainbow and brown trout. This is an important spawning ground, meaning there's lots of fish available and a good chance to hook a large fish.
