Policies

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Freshwater

The worsening state of New Zealand’s lakes and rivers is a major challenge for regional councils, which play a leading role in managing freshwater in their areas. To this end, regional councils create plans to protect water resources from contaminants and overuse.

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  • Implement, fund and incentivise recently developed 'Water Strategy' across the region.

  • Apply a catchment-based and integrated approach including education, monitoring, measurement, management and accountability.

  • Apply conservation initiatives for water including a requirement for cleaner production and contractual obligations to avoid water wastage.

  • Improve freshwater quality greatly with scheduled, supportive and professional assistance on daily basis in the Albany ward with locals.

  • Innovate irrigation and its supportive necessary services and requirements with expedient, timely and effective consistency. Ensure Penlink.

  • Fix land use affecting water resources in expedient, prudent and conservative ways, without limiting the current users.

  • Protect the water of our beaches and bays by improving water infrastructure so that they remain safe for swimming and recreation.

  • Establish a water quality workforce to monitor levels of siltation in fresh water streams and rivers.

  • Protect natural aquifers from being sold or used for commerce, maintaining the natural flow of waterways.

  • Implement the recently developed water strategy across the region.

  • Apply a catchment-based and integrated approach including education, monitoring, measurement, management and accountability.

  • Ensure council encourages diversified water collection by residents to support the water infrastructure in times of depleted water sources.

  • Focus on having a clear and shared vision for how Auckland Council develops freshwater policy and makes future decisions.

  • Understand rural Auckland will have different needs to suburban Auckland and develop freshwater policy with sensitivity for those needs.

  • Strict enforcement on dumping and pollutant discharge into the stormwater network.

  • Restore our existing freshwater streams many of which are choked with rubbish, building debris and uncontrolled invasive weeds.

  • Improve compliance management of developers working near fresh waterways.

  • Oppose any illegal, central government asset grab of Auckland's drinking water, stormwater and wastewater infrastructure, under Three Waters.

  • Oppose any undemocratic moves to install unelected co-governance seats at council, seeking to steal water assets, under 'Three Waters' pretence.

  • Complete the central interceptor project as quickly as possible, in order to stop sewerage from entering into Auckland's waterways.

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