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.
Implement the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management via our new integrated plan whilst continuing to drive improvements in environmental stewardship and water use.
Ensure urban expansion and development is held to the same environmental standards as our rural areas.
Encourage infrastructure initiatives that will benefit catchment management and water supply and quality.
Give first order priority to aquatic environments.
Reverse overallocation of water for irrigation.
Develop policies/regulations to limit diffuse pollution from intensive agriculture. Set tighter limits for wastewater applied to land.
Commit to ending Intensive winter grazing. Intensive winter grazing is one if not the biggest nitrate and sediment polluters of Canterbury's rivers, lakes and aquifers.
Commit to cutting synthetic nitrogen fertiliser use.
Commit to all water take consents been conditional on sustainable nitrate leaching and healthy river flows and aquifers. Te Mana o te Wai.
Implement the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management via our new integrated plan whilst continuing to drive improvements in environmental stewardship and water use.
Ensure urban expansion and development is held to the same environmental standards as our rural areas.
Encourage infrastructure initiatives that will benefit catchment management and water supply and quality.
Give first order priority to aquatic environments.
Reverse overallocation of water for irrigation.
Develop policies/regulations to limit diffuse pollution from intensive agriculture. Set tighter limits for wastewater applied to land.
Commit to ending Intensive winter grazing. Intensive winter grazing is one if not the biggest nitrate and sediment polluters of Canterbury's rivers, lakes and aquifers.
Commit to cutting synthetic nitrogen fertiliser use.
Commit to all water take consents been conditional on sustainable nitrate leaching and healthy river flows and aquifers. Te Mana o te Wai.
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