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August 30, 2024
Resources for
Regional Authorities
Paul Sutherland
People in local government can help farms operate in ways that ensure the health of our land and water. Our resources can help you increase your local community’s understanding of the drivers for regulation, undertake effective collaboration, and improve decision-making in catchments.
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Land Use Suitability
Land use suitability tools and assessment processes for increasing land use diversity and delivering better community outcomes.
Sources and Flows
Managing contaminant pathways and attenuation to create headroom for productive land use.
Physiographic Environments of New Zealand
Integrating landscape process knowledge with water chemistry to understand how and why surface water quality varies across New Zealand
Benign Denitrification in Groundwaters
Developing a cost-effective technique to assess denitrification processes and end products in shallow groundwaters
Faecal Source Tracking
Identifying the sources of faecal contamination in waterways, and identifying naturalised Escherichia coli to help establish water quality for swimming
Cascade of Soil Erosion
Developing sediment models to enable land managers, water users, communities and iwi to set sediment-related water quality targets
Land Use Opportunities
Developing a holistic decision-making framework for evaluating land use opportunities.
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Pohewa Pae Tawhiti
Supporting land-use change decisions that are consistent with landowner long-range visions and priorities, through an integrated framework that incorporates tools, models and innovative guidelines and…
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Monitoring Freshwater Improvement Actions
Monitoring the effectiveness of interventions and mitigation actions on freshwater improvement. For full information see the programme website
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Healthy Estuaries
Assessing the interactions between loadings of different contaminants from freshwaters on the health and functioning of estuaries
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Indicators Working Group
Investigating the use of indicators to help the primary and public sector meet local, national and international reporting requirements
Reasons for Water Quality Improvement
Investigating the reasons for decreasing phosphorus concentrations in many waterways