Nelson City 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.
Incentivise residential rainwater collection and storage.
Seek to improve local water quality to ensure that all rivers are swimmable.
Support Resource Management Act reform with a focus on freshwater and general water quality.
Fundamentally acknowledge the importance of freshwater, its quality, and the need to protect it for Nelson and its wider communities.
Support any initiatives that will result in cleaner rivers across the city.
Pay particular attention to council policies that have resulted in the current condition of the Maitai. Support any cleanup initiatives.
Work hard to sort out council forestry, to reverse exotic plantings longterm, and to put in place more environmentally friendly policy.
Increase support for iwi and community groups such as Friends of the Maitai who undertake work to improve freshwater quality.
Enhance efforts toward the replanting of wide buffers along streams and rivers.
Set Te Mana o te Wai as the main principle, with river health taking precedence, then the needs of people and finally commercial interests.
Incentivise residential rainwater collection and storage.
Seek to improve local water quality to ensure that all rivers are swimmable.
Support Resource Management Act reform with a focus on freshwater and general water quality.
Fundamentally acknowledge the importance of freshwater, its quality, and the need to protect it for Nelson and its wider communities.
Support any initiatives that will result in cleaner rivers across the city.
Pay particular attention to council policies that have resulted in the current condition of the Maitai. Support any cleanup initiatives.
Work hard to sort out council forestry, to reverse exotic plantings longterm, and to put in place more environmentally friendly policy.
Increase support for iwi and community groups such as Friends of the Maitai who undertake work to improve freshwater quality.
Enhance efforts toward the replanting of wide buffers along streams and rivers.
Set Te Mana o te Wai as the main principle, with river health taking precedence, then the needs of people and finally commercial interests.
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