Hawke's Bay Regional Council
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.
Treasure our waterways. Commit to having urban waterways that are safe for kids to swim in and play near.
Treasure our waterways. Commit to having rural waterways that are safe for kids to swim in and play near.
Lead and facilitate renewed pride in our urban waterways.
Adopt ambitious limits for water quality and quantity that drive improvements whilst recognising regional dependence on primary production.
Support high flow storage and capture of water at peak times, with a preference for farmscale storage and a focus on climate resilience.
Work with mana whenua to develop long-term plans to achieve their aspirations for water and the environment.
Store water in winter and use it to increase river flows in summer. This aids the quality and quantity of river water.
Assist irrigators and others to develop on-site water storage and continue the work on replenishing underground (aquifer) water reserves.
Publish user-friendly reporting of river water quality.
Commit to freshwater standards, and a plan to achieve them, that ensure future generations can swim in all their local rivers.
Create community groups to commit to riparian care and conservation of our riversides. The best outcomes are when we work together.
Allow farmers, within the ecological footprints of their farms, to easily create on farm water retention and resilience.
I don't support the dam as we don't want intensified farming in our dry region.
I am against Three Waters preferring democratic not autocratic governance.
Treasure our waterways. Commit to having urban waterways that are safe for kids to swim in and play near.
Treasure our waterways. Commit to having rural waterways that are safe for kids to swim in and play near.
Lead and facilitate renewed pride in our urban waterways.
Adopt ambitious limits for water quality and quantity that drive improvements whilst recognising regional dependence on primary production.
Support high flow storage and capture of water at peak times, with a preference for farmscale storage and a focus on climate resilience.
Work with mana whenua to develop long-term plans to achieve their aspirations for water and the environment.
Store water in winter and use it to increase river flows in summer. This aids the quality and quantity of river water.
Assist irrigators and others to develop on-site water storage and continue the work on replenishing underground (aquifer) water reserves.
Publish user-friendly reporting of river water quality.
Commit to freshwater standards, and a plan to achieve them, that ensure future generations can swim in all their local rivers.
Create community groups to commit to riparian care and conservation of our riversides. The best outcomes are when we work together.
Allow farmers, within the ecological footprints of their farms, to easily create on farm water retention and resilience.
I don't support the dam as we don't want intensified farming in our dry region.
I am against Three Waters preferring democratic not autocratic governance.
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