The problem has affected some of the home-owners to such an extent that they have packed up and left their properties as they wait for the water to come back on, Hawea Flat resident Kelly Urquhart said.
Mrs Urquhart, her husband, Thomas, and their two sons have been without water in their house for 10 days, after their 12.5m-deep bore dried up.
The family have had to rely on a hose slung over from their neighbour's house and its deeper bore to provide water for their daily drinking, toilet and washing requirements.
Queenstown Lakes District Council acting water manager John Porter has estimated water may not return to the dried-up bores for a month.
The QLDC, electricity supplier Contact Energy, and the Hawea Residents Association are working together to help those affected. A tanker trucked in water from Queenstown to one of the affected properties yesterday.
Mrs Urquhart said the help was appreciated, but not every household had a tank available to store water.
Contact Energy spokesman Jonathon Hill said the power company was interested in doing "all it could to offer solutions to the people affected", but reiterated that low levels of Lake Hawea were not the cause of the dry bores.
Hawea Residents Association chairman Errol Carr said the dilemma for Hawea Flat property owners was the depth of their drilled water bores.
He thought the issue had been "sensationalised" and urged people to take more responsibility.
Other bores in Hawea Flat households, drilled 18m to 20m deep, still have water.
"Bores between 12m and 16m are not deep enough. We live in a dry area and there has been little rain for some time."
It was not up to the council, or Contact Energy, to solve the problem, and was the responsibility of the property owners, he said. Lake Hawea had been as low as 338m above sea level less than three years ago, and bores had not run dry then.
It was at 339.3m above sea level yesterday.
