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Water sensitive urban design: a concrete case
Feature story27 June 2018The hard concrete surfaces that characterise New Zealand towns and cities are barely likely to register as a problem with most people. But they're never far from the minds of our urban water researchers. -
Overview of environmental flow tools
Methods/tools that can be used to assess ecological flow requirements in rivers with varying degrees of hydrological alteration and instream values. -
New Zealand River Maps
NZ River Maps is a simple, yet flexible, web-based tool that allows users to map and interrogate estimates for over 100 freshwater variables for the entire national river network. -
Environmental Flows Strategic Allocation Platform (EFSAP)
EFSAP is a water planning and management tool designed to assist with setting regional or large-scale water resource use limits for rivers. -
Underwater footage shows exceptional clarity of Te Waikoropupū Springs
Media release25 May 2018On the bottom of New Zealand’s largest freshwater springs is an underwater garden of vivid green, pinks and inky blues. -
Waikoropupu Springs video
NIWA freshwater scientists have completed monitoring the ultra-clear water of the Te Waikoropupū Springs near Takaka. -
Water count
Feature story20 April 2018Ruth Beran discovers that public interest in the state of fresh waterways has driven a dramatic change in the tools used by scientists. -
Citizen science: Monitoring the Maitai
Feature story11 April 2018The first Wednesday of the month finds Philippa Eberlein and her Friends of the Maitai colleagues collecting samples from the Maitai River in Nelson. -
Summer Series 2017 - Citizen scientists take on Hutt River
Feature story08 January 2018A group of volunteers who love the Hutt River are helping to care for it over summer.
