CWMS Action Plan Fund

Kaikōura

1. Support “ki uta ki tai” projects
2. Support kaitiakitanga within our zone
3. Facilitate action to enhance biodiversity and improve amenity and recreation outcomes
4. Support our community to respond to changing requirements, and share resources for good
   management practice
5. Facilitate understanding of catchment systems within our zone, build community knowledge and connection
   to these systems and increase public participation in activities that enhance catchment
   health and outcomes

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Hurunui Waiau Uwha

1. Improve water quality and ecosystem health in the Hurunui and Waiau Uwha catchments through nutrient
   management, riparian planting, and sediment reduction
2. Protect and restore mahinga kai and cultural values, supporting Te Ngāi Tūāhuriri Rūnanga and Te Rūnanga o
   Kaikōura aspirations for healthy, accessible waterways
3. Balance water use and river flows to sustain both environmental health and community wellbeing
4. Enhance biodiversity and wetland habitats through coordinated restoration and land management
5. Support climate-resilient land and water management to reduce the impacts of droughts and flood events

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Waimakariri

1. Improve monitoring of groundwater and surface water
2. Increase indigenous biodiversity
3. Promote the natural braided character and increased flow of the Ashley River/Rakahuri
4. Protection and enhancement of environmentally sustainable recreation
5. Improve mahinga kai
6. Support climate-resilient land and water management to reduce the impacts of droughts and flood events

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Christchurch West Melton

1. He Tangata / the people, Mahi tahi / partnership and engagement – support projects that grow community
   understanding, participation, and shared stewardship of urban waterways
2. He huringa āhuarangi / a changing climate: Support projects that help urban communities understand, plan
   for, and adapt to the effects of climate change on waterways
3. He whenua ora / a living environment – support collaborative projects that strengthen the health and
   resilience of waterways by improving erosion and sediment control

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Banks Peninsula

1. Support actions that strengthen resilience and improve freshwater health with appropriate consideration of
   mātauranga Māori and climate change where relevant
2. Restore and enhance waterways through collaborative projects that improve water quality, support habitat
   restoration and reduce contaminants such as sediment and nutrients, drawing on mātauranga Māori and
   climate-change understanding where it adds value
3. Reduce erosion and sediment entering waterways by supporting initiatives that demonstrate effective soil
   conservation or improve recreational water quality, and appropriately incorporate mātauranga Māori or
   climate considerations

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Selwyn Waihora

1. Help raise awareness about the risks to private drinking water supplies
2. Enhance mahinga kai, biodiversity and recreation opportunities
3. Facilitate actions to achieve catchment nutrient targets and water quality outcomes
4. Support actions to restore Te Waihora to a healthy state
5. Support actions that help facilitate a community-wide approach to restore the Waikirikiri Selwyn River back
   to a healthy state

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Ashburton

1. Support action that enhances freshwater outcomes for several waterbodies: Ōtūwharekai Ashburton Lakes,
   Hakatere Ashburton and Hekeao Hinds and stockwater races
2. Support work to enhance mahinga kai values
3. Support work towards improving ecosystem health and meeting biodiversity targets
4. Support measures to enhance recreation and amenity targets

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Ōrāri-Temuka-Ōpihi-Pareora (OTOP)

1. Support work that assists with the protection, enhancement and restoration of mahinga kai (to work the
   food – gather, harvest, preserve, conserve) and tuhituhi o neherā (rock art or rock drawings) sites
2. Support community and partner-led activities with Papatipu Rūnanga that build understanding of local
   waterways and cultural values
3. Build understanding of the importance of water and healthy waterways — reflected in concepts such as Te
   Mana o Te Wai and Te Mana o Ngā Awa — across rural, urban, and industrial settings
4. Champion safe and reliable drinking water for the OTOP community

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Lower Waitaki South Coastal

1. Support landowners, communities, industry and rūnaka-led projects and others that enhance mahika kai
2. Support collaborative projects that support or promote the CWMS Ecosystem Health and Biodiversity
   targets for 2030
3. Support community projects that promote the responsible use of water resources by CWMS order of priorities
   into local decision-making, education, and on-the-ground action
4. Support projects that restore freshwater recreation opportunities and develop plans and actions to achieve
   and show measurable progress
5. Support projects that improve water quality and enhance immediate environs of Wainono Lagoon, and the
   Waihao River and catchment area
6. Support improvement opportunities in water quality and quantity across the wider community,
   including schools

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Upper Waitaki

1. Support the enhancement of nohoanga sites, improved health of key waterways for customary use and
   enhancement of mahinga kai opportunities
2. Support improved management and preservation of recreational values of the Waitaki Lakes
3. Support catchment groups taking collective action to reduce losses of contaminants, prioritised where they
   are addressing identified at-risk areas
4. Support projects that communicate and engage with our communities, including sharing good
   understandable science communication