Water Reform Options Workshops

Water New Zealand believes that it’s important that you are kept up to date with what has been happening and have your opportunity to tell us what you think.

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Water New Zealand Awards Programme 2018

Award and nomination details can be found here.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the success of the

2018 Stormwater Conference

Papers and presentations can be found here.

Congratulations to our winner of the

Water New Zealand Photo Competition

View the winning entry and the runners up

Water New Zealand Conference & Expo

19-21 September, Hamilton

Available online

July/August WATER Journal

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Councils get help to prepare for sea-level rise

A senior NIWA scientist is concerned many councils are having difficulty “getting off the starting blocks” when it comes to planning for coastal climate change.

Major water management reform could take responsibility for drinking water from councils

New Zealand councils could lose responsibility for providing drinking water under a major reform of national water management, the Government has announced.

Help near for councils, as water changes loom

Councils are screaming for financial help from central Government. The problem is, David Williams reports, they might get it sooner than they think.

Events Calendar

27

Jul

Freshwater NPS 101 Presentation

Wellington

Have you ever wondered what the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management actually does?

30

Jul

Water Reform regional workshop - New Plymouth

31

Jul

Water Reform regional workshop - Palmerston North

01

Aug

Water Reform regional workshop - Wellington

Stormwater Update

Stormwater Group Committee

Congratulations to James Reddish and Troy Brockbank, elected Chair and Deputy Chair respectively, at the recent Stormwater Group AGM; and welcome to new committee members.

Thanks to all outgoing committee members, in particular Mike Hannah and Dean Watts for their Chairmanship roles.

Stormwater Awards

Congratulations to the winners of the 2018 awards:

Professional of the Year , Bronwyn Rhynd, CKL
Paper of the Year , CONTINUOUS SIMULATION MODELLING TO SUPPORT HEALTHY WATERWAYS; Jahangir Islam (AECOM), Josh Irvine (WSP Opus), Nick Brown and Nadia Nische (both Auckland Council)
The inaugural Stormwater Innovation Award, Stormwater 360’s “LittaTrap™”.

John Pfahlert CEO of Water New Zealand discusses possible wide ranging reforms to our three water services.

So what's in the pipeline for reform? And who is going to pay to replace the ageing infrastructure? John Pfahlert is the Chief Executive of Water New Zealand and Marcus Rink is the Chief Inspector of Drinking Water at the UK's Dept of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs