Link Static Mesh to camera

Hello,
I finally got some very good looking water working which is great on performance, until I start copying the plane multiply times to fill the map which basically brings me down to 5 fps.
So I “came” with a solution. I want to somehow link the water plane static mesh to the camera so it moves with the player but only horizontally.

How could I achieve this?

this is the easy way, you pass the location of your pawn, to your water plane keeping the z of your water of course, mmm i dont know is the mechanic of your game you can also attach the water to your pawn but keep relative distance, check pic.
mmm see to the unreal demo Content Examples project, in the splines map has a little fish with water attach, maybe help you more