24 July 2009
Welcome to the first e-mail edition of Freshwater Update, produced by NIWA’s National Freshwater Centre. It's a quarterly review and outlook of New Zealand’s freshwater resources, and also features some of our latest freshwater research. In this edition, we feature our highly successful ‘Restoring aquatic environments’ programme.
In this issue
Other news from the National Freshwater Centre
Twenty years of monitoring provides insight into our river water quality
Two decades of monitoring of river water quality by NIWA has provided important information that is helping to care for New Zealand’s iconic rivers.
Read the full article.
Listen up! Polluted waterways – the science and the solutions
In a recent interview, NIWA scientists Drs Rob Davies-Colley and Bob Wilcock, and Murray Gibb (WaterNZ) talk about major water quality issues facing New Zealand, the latest research, and potential solutions to the problem of degraded water quality.-
Outlook by region, July-September 2009
Northern North Island
Normal or above normal soil moisture levels
and above normal river flows are likely.
Rest of the North Island
Normal or above normal soil moisture flows and river levels are likely.
Northern and southwestern
South Island
Normal soil moisture levels and river flows are likely.
Eastern South Island
Normal or above normal soil moisture flows and river levels likely.