Wood chips and plant material make pulp that is used to produce paper products.

NIWA's Hydro Web Portal provides river flow and water quality monitoring data from NIWA’s Benchmark river monitoring network.

Maps of average annual rainfall, temperature and other climate variables have been produced for all of New Zealand, based on the period 1981–2010.

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Easing the resource consent process

In Kaitiaki Tools the term mahinga kai generally refers to indigenous freshwater species that have traditionally been used as food, tools, or other resources.

Within a range of meaningful contexts students will be able to make statements about implications and possible actions consistent with the results of a statistical investigation and to find and authenticate data measures such as mean, median, mode, inter-quartile range, and range.

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When soils erode, sediments are washed into waterways.

The climate of this area is greatly dependent on its exposure to weather systems from the Tasman Sea and the lie of the Southern Alps to the east.