Digitised up-to-date environmental action plans for farmers

Engaging farmers with biodiversity on their farms

Determining whether detention bunds can effectively manage peak run off and reduce sediment in Northland

Reducing contaminants and improving wetland habitat

Are nutrient filters a practical solution for farmers to reduce their impact on water quality?

Can nitrogen fertiliser use be reduced without compromising pasture growth?

Helping landowners to better understand where to put contaminant management interventions to improve water quality leaving farms

A GIS-based tool to help community groups and landowers in smaller catchments to prioritise actions for freshwater improvement

Testing the usefulness of taking an ecosystems services approach for project planning

Working with landowners to acquire land for environmental outcomes 

Supporting conservation activities across international borders

How to work together with differing views, backgrounds and goals for ecological restoration

Our approach to working with mana whenua

Why was Living Water established? What were the challenges of establishing a partnership and what has been learned

How the Living Water partnership and programme is organised to deliver the mahi

A framework to guide the planning, monitoring and evaluation approach for Living Water

How we collected information to inform decisions on what work to do

How Living Water made choices about where to work

Taking a new approach to strategic planning

Are nutrient filters a practical solution for farmers to reduce their impact on water quality?

Can nitrogen fertiliser use be reduced without compromising pasture growth?

Reducing contaminants and improving wetland habitat

A GIS-based tool to help community groups and landowers in smaller catchments to prioritise actions for freshwater improvement

Helping landowners to better understand where to put contaminant management interventions to improve water quality leaving farms

Using simple structures to manage peak flows

Testing the usefulness of taking an ecosystems services approach for project planning

Can we control an invasive weed with Brazilian beetles?

How to work together with differing views, backgrounds and goals for ecological restoration

Determining whether detention bunds can effectively manage peak run off and reduce sediment in Northland

Why was Living Water established? What were the challenges of establishing a partnership and what has been learned

See our 2022 highlights, marking 9 years of our 10 year partnership

Sediment traps are simple, low-cost excavations in a watercourse or near a waterbody that capture and reduce the downstream movement of gravel, sand, and silt. 

Determining whether detention bunds can effectively manage peak run off and reduce sediment in Northland

Working with landowners to acquire land for environmental outcomes 

The biggest event on the Southland calendar.