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As the weather heats up, Horizons Regional Council is heading out to test water quality at popular swimming spots around the Region as part of its summer monitoring programme.

Monitoring data from last summer made available by Land, Air, Water Aotearoa (LAWA) reveals outdoor swimming spots in New Zealand have good recreational water quality most of the time, but project scientists recommend avoiding the water for 2-3 days after heavy rain.

To mark World Rivers Day this Sunday, regional councils are releasing their latest water quality data on the Land, Air, Water, Aotearoa website, which this year includes lake quality monitoring. Launched in March 2014, www.lawa.org.nz began reporting water quality results at 1100 river sites. Since...

Principal Water Quality Scientist and LAWA ‘Can I swim here?' Project Lead Anna Madarasz-Smith has some swim smart advice for summer 2020:

Horizons Regional Council has announced the winners for its summer swim spot photo competition #swiminourregion.

Horizons Regional Council has welcomed Prime Minister Bill English and Minister for the Environment Nick Smith’s freshwater announcements in Auckland today. The Ministers’ announcements included changes to the National Policy Statement – Freshwater Management (NPS) and a new Freshwater Improvement F...

Horizons Regional Council have set their swimmability targets for the region’s large rivers and lakes suitable for swimming year-round to 70 per cent by 2030 and 80 per cent by 2040. And for summer, when most people actually swim, Council has set a target of 90 per cent by 2040.

As rivers warm up and water flows reduce, Hawke’s Bay Regional Council is reminding dog owners to keep their dogs under control at the region’s braided rivers because of the risk of the potentially toxic cyanobacteria, Phormidium, being present.

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

It’s been ten years of top teamwork for the environment at Wharekawa on the eastern Coromandel coast.

The Taylor River in Blenheim is many things to many people. To the Rivers Department at the Marlborough District Council it is a floodway that needs a clear run when heavy rain falls.  To the Recreation and Reserves Department it is a central and accessible expanse of riverside space that locals and...

Hurunui Waiau Water Zone Committee chair Ken Hughey reflects on how far the committee has come with water management and how it is approaching future challenges.