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This World Environment Day the UN is calling on countries to come together to beat air pollution. In New Zealand, monitoring results collated by Land, Air, Water Aotearoa (LAWA) show air quality has improved over the past 10-years, but there is still more that communities and households can do to pr...

Two new reports on nutrients that can support algal growth in the Waikato and Waipa rivers indicate some potentially positive developments for protecting and restoring water quality in the region.

From today, people can access information about the health of estuaries locally and across the country using a new topic on the LAWA website that makes results from regional and unitary council monitoring programmes freely available.

Discussion around the state of water quality in New Zealand is not short of an opinion or two. Yet when it comes to the science, we’re surprisingly quiet.

Discussion around the state of water quality in New Zealand is not short of an opinion or two. Yet when it comes to the science, we’re surprisingly quiet.

The Land, Air, Water Aotearoa (LAWA) project has today published updated water quality results for around 3,500 rivers, lakes, estuaries, and groundwater sites. Project scientists say the data are gold for the thousands of people working on freshwater improvement across the country.

The LAWA project is part of a wider programme to improve environmental monitoring and reporting in New Zealand. As the project and technology has evolved, so have opportunities to generate and share more information. We now publish an annual River Water Quality National Picture Summary of state, and...

Questions and answers on the LAWA River Water Quality National Picture Summary (2010 - 2019) released on World Rivers Day 2020.

Nelson residents can now check real-time air quality in their neighbourhood through environmental monitoring website lawa.org.nz. Real time data is available for Nelson’s four air sheds – Nelson Centre/North, Tahunanui, Stoke and Nelson South.

A report on last summer’s water quality monitoring for recreation was considered by Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s Environment and Services Committee on 8 October.

As Horizons Regional Council staff and volunteers celebrated World Rivers Day across the region this morning, regional councils have been releasing their latest state and trend river data on the Land, Air, Water Aotearoa (LAWA) website.

The last Sunday of September marks World Rivers’ Day for 60 countries, and will be recognised by Horizons Regional Council joining its counterparts across the country in releasing their latest state and trend river data on the Land, Air, Water Aotearoa (LAWA) website.