Marlborough District 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.
Create a program with central agencies for all homeless in Marlborough with a range of solutions based on self-sufficiency and family makeup.
Remove the high wind zone blanket classification for the Marlborough Sounds to allow appropriate engineering design.
Encourage more effective and efficient irrigation rather than wasteful types like flood irrigation.
Improve water flow monitoring and modelling.
Limit discharges into waterways.
Encourage research to enable farmers and growers to be industry leaders in reducing nitrates and grape marc waste.
Harvest peak flow water and enable smaller storage schemes and water recycling plants to be constructed to enable landowners to benefit.
Investigate new crops and farming methods for drought-prone areas and adapt for use in Marlborough. Research and invest.
Develop a strategy and plan to restore wetlands and freshwater.
Advocate for improved forestry practices that protect water quality and support long-term land and ecosystem health.
Encourage water take policies that balance industry needs with protection of in-stream biodiversity and long-term ecosystem health.
Target annual improvements in water quality across rivers and streams to support safe recreation, ecosystem health and community use.
Create a program with central agencies for all homeless in Marlborough with a range of solutions based on self-sufficiency and family makeup.
Remove the high wind zone blanket classification for the Marlborough Sounds to allow appropriate engineering design.
Encourage more effective and efficient irrigation rather than wasteful types like flood irrigation.
Improve water flow monitoring and modelling.
Limit discharges into waterways.
Encourage research to enable farmers and growers to be industry leaders in reducing nitrates and grape marc waste.
Harvest peak flow water and enable smaller storage schemes and water recycling plants to be constructed to enable landowners to benefit.
Investigate new crops and farming methods for drought-prone areas and adapt for use in Marlborough. Research and invest.
Develop a strategy and plan to restore wetlands and freshwater.
Advocate for improved forestry practices that protect water quality and support long-term land and ecosystem health.
Encourage water take policies that balance industry needs with protection of in-stream biodiversity and long-term ecosystem health.
Target annual improvements in water quality across rivers and streams to support safe recreation, ecosystem health and community use.
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