Auckland 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.
Enforce polluter-pays rules so developers and businesses clean up contamination, not ratepayers.
Crowdsource water guardians by training locals to monitor streams and report pollution in real time.
Launch adopt a stream projects where schools, sports clubs, churches and others restore sections of waterways.
Eliminate stormwater and wastewater overflows that make beaches and waterways unswimmable.
Increase compliance funding to enable faster, more decisive responses to pollution events with the goal of eliminating root causes.
Increase transparency on freshwater monitoring to help educate and inform the public and enable better decision-making over actions.
Invest in infrastructure to prevent sewage going into waterways.
Set environmental limits based on science rather than cultural values.
Speed up consents for water storage to ease pressure on source water.
Enforce polluter-pays rules so developers and businesses clean up contamination, not ratepayers.
Crowdsource water guardians by training locals to monitor streams and report pollution in real time.
Launch adopt a stream projects where schools, sports clubs, churches and others restore sections of waterways.
Eliminate stormwater and wastewater overflows that make beaches and waterways unswimmable.
Increase compliance funding to enable faster, more decisive responses to pollution events with the goal of eliminating root causes.
Increase transparency on freshwater monitoring to help educate and inform the public and enable better decision-making over actions.
Invest in infrastructure to prevent sewage going into waterways.
Set environmental limits based on science rather than cultural values.
Speed up consents for water storage to ease pressure on source water.
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