Kinky relationships among Canterbury’s springs
By Daniel Collins As Ross mentioned some time ago, one of the frontiers of hydrological research at present is the interface between surface water and groundwater. On the one hand, we need to...
View ArticleCanterbury Lysimeter Network: Measuring the hydrologic inputs to aquifers
By MS Srinivasan Irrigated agriculture is growing in Canterbury. This growth has resulted in a greater rush for accessing water resources — surface and ground waters – across the region. Since these...
View ArticleCanterbury water use, 2010/11
Guest post by James Tricker, Principle Extension Services Officer, Environment Canterbury There are increasing expectations, both within the Canterbury community and also within a national context,...
View ArticleCanterbury does not have 70% of New Zealand’s freshwater, it has 12%
By Daniel Collins In the Christchurch Press today there is an article about the race to irrigate Canterbury. In it is the following statement: “Canterbury had 70 per cent of New Zealand’s fresh water...
View ArticleThe state of Canterbury’s coastal wetland vegetation
By Philip Grove Canterbury has a wide variety of wetland types in a range of landscapes from the mountains and high country through to the foothills, plains and the coast. The biological productivity...
View ArticleEvolution of water governance models in New Zealand
By Bryan Jenkins In her work that won her the 2009 Nobel Prize in economics, Elinor Ostrom identified three types of governance models for common pool resources like water. One is the “Leviathan model”...
View ArticleCollaborative water management delivers local solutions in north Canterbury
By David Eder and Ian Whitehouse In July 2013 the Hurunui-Waiau Zone Committee will notch up three years of work. It was set up as part of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy – a collaborative...
View ArticleOvercoming obstacles to setting water quality limits
By Ned Norton and Helen Rouse In the previous Waiology series on Water governance, we referred to the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management (NPSFM) (2011) requirement to set limits for...
View ArticleNitrate in Canterbury groundwater
By Carl Hanson Nitrate concentrations in Canterbury groundwater have been prominent in the media recently. Headlines have included phrases like “ticking time bomb”, “scaremongering” and “freaking out...
View ArticleFull citizen science flood map for Christchurch, March 2014
By Daniel Collins As a follow-up to Waiology’s article in June, here is a full map for the flooding of Christchurch on 5 March 2014. The map is derived from photos sent in by the public which were...
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