Register of Land Management Actions

How can the research be used? Ka pēhea e whai take ai te rangahau?

• The National Register of Actions created a free online tool, the Healthy Waterways register.
• The Healthy Waterways register will complement the Land Air Water Aotearoa (LAWA) platform. You can view a mock-up of how this may look.
• The project was structured to build on and combine existing recording initiatives by farmers, growers, iwi and hapū, primary sector bodies, community groups and councils, including actions implemented through farm environment plans.
• The tools developed will improve our ability to link actions on land, with changes in water quality at monitoring sites. They will display information in a way that reflects the combined effort in a catchment, showing the extent and intensity of the actions. This will enable people in one catchment to make comparisons with other catchments, to see what has worked elsewhere and over what timeframe.
• The register is not a compliance tool, and is designed so it can’t be used in this way. The register is intended to record all actions taken to improve water quality, not just those driven by regulation.
• The register presents information at a catchment scale, recognising the confidentiality and privacy of individual property owners. We will demonstrate in pilot catchments how the tool can be used to display actions at the catchment scale throughout New Zealand.
• The research will link with other projects on transitioning to a more sustainable future, including research into catchment community and iwi groups, and sustainability marketing.