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Find out where Canterbury’s air pollution comes from, how weather affects it, and what we can all do to help improve air quality.
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Learn how Canterbury’s 600km of stopbanks protect communities from floods, and why damage from stock, vehicles or planting can weaken them.
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Council adopted the Annual Report 2025/26, approved new bus route performance thresholds and agreed to progress local water management leadership groups.
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Environment Canterbury’s Annual Report highlights a year of progress for Waitaha, balancing affordability, investment and essential regional services.
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We monitor 52 freshwater and 47 coastal swimming sites each summer, find out the long-term results based on five years of sampling.
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We're urging people to prepare for possible water shortages, wildfire, low river flows, toxic algal blooms and rapidly changing conditions on our alpine rivers.
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Rural Waste NZ has been launched to make farm waste management easier to understand and easier to put into practice.
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To reduce the amount of farm plastics ending up at the landfill, recycling old or unwanted water tanks has become more accessible and easier to manage.
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Share your views on the proposal to enable solar energy generation at West Melton Reserve and tell us what Council should consider before deciding.
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South Canterbury homeowners can access subsidies to replace expired wood burners with cleaner, more efficient home heating.
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Wallabies and wilding pines - two of Waitaha Canterbury's biggest pest challenges - were the focus of a recent school field trip to Takapō Regional Park.