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Around 40 members of the Manawatū River Leaders’ Forum discussed next steps in the river’s clean-up at a meeting in Palmerston North on Friday 12 June.

New scientific studies of data from Taranaki and nationwide have concluded that freshwater quality is better than many probably believe – and this region in particular has been taking effective steps to achieve improvements.

Horizons Regional Council is pleased to learn it will receive a further $300,000 for erosion control works undertaken as part of the Sustainable Land Use Initiative (SLUI).

Horizons Regional Council has reported popular swim spots throughout the Region were swimmable for the majority of the 2015-16 summer.

The Government’s recently announced Action for Healthy Waterways package includes protections and funding to improve the quality of New Zealand’s rivers, lakes, streams, estuaries, and wetlands.

Sustained improvements in faecal indicator bacterial levels in the Hakaru River near Topuni have earned a NZ River award for Northland’s most improved river.

The May state of environment report for Hawke's Bay has been issued.

Monitoring carried out by Environment Southland shows a high abundance of the naturally occurring and potentially toxic benthic cyanobacteria (blue/green or brown/black algae) in the Waikaia River in northern Southland.

A committee made up of river iwi governors and Waikato regional councillors has agreed to recommend a proposed plan change for the Waikato and Waipa rivers to the regional council for consideration.

Purpose To update you on the project and involve you in discussions with the Collaborative Stakeholder Group (CSG) on: how the CSG proposes to divide the catchment into areas so we can better manage water quality current water quality and trends in different parts of the Waipa and Waikato River cat...

Come to the Huntly drop in session for Healthy Rivers: Plan for Change/Wai Ora: He Rautaki Whakapaipai. You can find out the latest developments in the project, including: current water quality and trends in different parts of the Waipa and Waikato River catchments insights into factors driving wa...