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Te Arai Te Uru awa (river) has been selected as the LAWA (Land, Air, Water Aotearoa) ‘River of the Month’ for July.

If you’ve made a trip down to the shores of Lake Rototoa on the south head of the Kaipara Harbour recently, you might have happened across a little boat floating along on its own.

Today, the Land, Air, Water Aotearoa (LAWA) project has released the LAWA River Water Quality National Picture Summary 2021, alongside updated river monitoring result histories for more than 1500 individual sites across New Zealand.

Water quality monitoring by Hawke’s Bay Regional Council staff indicates that potentially toxic algae levels are present on the Tukituki River, at Black Bridge near Haumoana.

As the dry weather continues and water restrictions come into play throughout the Region, Horizons Regional Council reminds consent holders to comply with their water take consents and for the rest of the public to take heed of city and district water restrictions.

Understanding and improving our waterways requires high quality information and communities can now access the latest on their rivers, lakes and streams thanks to fresh data available today.  World Rivers Day highlights the value many people see in rivers, and strives to increase public awareness an...