In the middle of the Wellington suburb of Petone, people line up every day to fill their water bottles from Te Puna Wai Ora, the Spring of Life. The fountain is one of several artesian wells along the Hutt River valley that taps the Waiwhetū aquifer, a vast freshwater lens that stretches underground and continues to run under much of Wellington Harbour.
Matiu/Somes Island, in the middle of