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Groundwater quality and the effects of that on the Waimea stream is the subject of the Balfour Groundwater Project group and their work has been highlighted in a feature ‘River of the Month’ video on the LAWA website.

The Waiwhakaiho River has high cultural, aesthetic, ecological, recreational and economic value to the people of Taranaki. Originating on the north-eastern slopes of Mount Taranaki in Egmont National Park, the river flows across farmland on the ringplain then through urban New Plymouth to the Tasman...

The importance of the Waikato and Waipa rivers to the region’s tourism sector has been emphasised at a workshop for a key project designed to protect and restore the waterways.

Otago Regional Council (ORC) water quality samples show high levels of bacteria in some locations.

The health of monitored freshwater sites across New Zealand and how it is changing over time has been revealed by the Land, Air, Water Aotearoa (LAWA) project today.

The Shag River in East Otago has won the Grand Award at the inaugural 2013 New Zealand River Awards, which recognise the most significant improvements in river health in the country.

Horizons Regional Council staff have pinpointed sites where inanga have laid eggs along the Whanganui River during a hands on hunt recently.

Horizons Regional Council is encouraging people to go out and enjoy the Region’s rivers this summer by providing information to help them make sensible choices.

Southland Girls' High School year 9-10 students recently braved the windy weather and carried out a stream study and native riparian planting around the Waihopai dam in north Invercargill.

Regional council scientists are back splashing around in the surf this month as weekly beach monitoring has resumed around the country. Results of the testing is now available on the environmental monitoring website Land, Air, Water Aotearoa (LAWA).

The end of Easter Weekend marked the closing of Horizons Regional Council’s summer swim spot campaign, and three weeks left until the end of the summer monitoring programme.

Annual water quality testing of popular swimming spots at Taranaki beaches, rivers and streams has started for the summer.