Environment Canterbury
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.
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.
Give effect to Te Mana o Te Wai, prioritising healthy waterways above all else. Emphasise education but follow with enforcement if needed.
Conduct region-wide nitrate monitoring on farms, measuring nitrates in and out. Base farm-scale reduction action plans on the results.
Promote more stormwater wetlands, to capture and filter stormwater before it enters rivers, both rurally and for urban rivers
Planting wetlands on the edges of waterways to filter nutrients and run off from agricultural land.
Implement the new freshwater policy statement to require reductions in nitrate levels in our waterways.
Commit council and other territorial authorities to an honest discussion on head of cattle numbers within Canterbury's hot spots.
Aim to get the community to encourage farmers into land use change and find reductions for irrigation.
Give effect to Te Mana o Te Wai, prioritising healthy waterways above all else. Emphasise education but follow with enforcement if needed.
Conduct region-wide nitrate monitoring on farms, measuring nitrates in and out. Base farm-scale reduction action plans on the results.
Promote more stormwater wetlands, to capture and filter stormwater before it enters rivers, both rurally and for urban rivers
Planting wetlands on the edges of waterways to filter nutrients and run off from agricultural land.
Implement the new freshwater policy statement to require reductions in nitrate levels in our waterways.
Commit council and other territorial authorities to an honest discussion on head of cattle numbers within Canterbury's hot spots.
Aim to get the community to encourage farmers into land use change and find reductions for irrigation.
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