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Increasingly empowered communities are starting to take local ownership of water management but we still have a long way to go.
Build relationships
It takes time to strengthen relationships and connections between all parties with an interest in water management. Getting everyone around the table from the beginning of the process helps establish trust and understanding. We’re continuing to develop these relationships both internally and externally with the ultimate goal of empowering communitie…
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/your-region/your-environment/water/canterburys-approach-to-water-management/looking-ahead/
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Collectively, lifestyle blocks can have a significant impact on our environment as they typically have more people and infrastructure on a smaller land area, and are concentrated in areas where they become the dominant land use. Waitaha Canterbury is home to more than 15,000 lifestyle blocks covering around 73,000ha.
Lifestyle blocks are between one and 20ha, with majority being in the 4-5ha range. The following advice aims to help people living on lifestyle blocks keep rivers and streams clean…
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/your-region/farmers-hub/lifestyle-blocks/
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Talking about tuna, learning about local water management and enjoying a delicious hāngī were part of a spring day out for Omarama School students.
The whole school (39 kids) were invited to Omarama Station by rūnanga and landowners Richard and Annabelle Subtil to learn about its native tuna relocation programme and to join in the Upper Waitaki Zone Committee hāngī after its November meeting.
Protecting native longfin eelJohn Wilkie, rūnanga representative on the zone committee, explained the…
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/zone-news/upper-waitaki/hangi-by-the-stream/
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Flooding is the most common natural hazard in Canterbury. Three main types of flooding affect our low-lying region - river flooding, local runoff flooding and coastal overtopping.
Vast areas of the region are vulnerable to a degree of flood risk. Disastrous floods have struck many areas in Canterbury at some time over the past 100 years. But what causes this flooding and how do they originate?
Read our brochure about living on a floodplain.
Three types of flooding explained
River flooding
T…
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/your-region/your-environment/natural-hazards/floods/causes-of-flooding/
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Long before the Waimakariri River became a source of food for Māori, a water supply for farmers and a recreational hotspot for the half-million people living on its borders, it was quite literally a world builder.
For thousands of years it has continued the legacy of mighty ice age glaciers that carved through the Southern Alps, pulling loose rock and sediment from its headwaters near Arthur’s Pass and sending them forth in a great alluvial wash from the mountains to the sea.
Together with oth…
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/zone-news/waimakariri/shifting-role-of-the-waimakariri-river/
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Do you have kereru in your kōwhai? Tuna (eels) in your drain?
There is a term for these treasures and the habitats that support them – in Māori, it is mahinga kai/mahika kai.
Mahinga kai/mahika kai is about the value of natural resources that sustain life, including the life of people. It is important to manage and protect these resources, in the same way that ancestors have done before us.
For Ngāi Tahu, it is critical to manage these resources to allow people to continue gatherin…
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/your-region/your-environment/our-natural-environment/mahinga-kai/
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Some of the information on this page as well as linked documents may be out of date as a result of the Essential Freshwater Package introduced in September 2020.
Environment Canterbury is currently in the process of updating all relevant documentation. If you have any queries please contact Customer Services on 0800 324 636.
Below you can find information and rules in relation to farming in the Lower Waitaki South Coastal Canterbury zone.
To see if you need a land use consent to farm:
Ope…
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/your-region/farmers-hub/zone-specific-rules-and-information/lowerwaitaki-southcoastalcanterbury/
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Find out more about wetlands on your property and how you can help to protect them.
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/2019/wetlands-mapping-whats-the-story/
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Some of the information on this page as well as linked documents may be out of date as a result of the Essential Freshwater Package introduced in September 2020.
Environment Canterbury is currently in the process of updating all relevant documentation. If you have any queries please contact Customer Services on 0800 324 636.
On this page, you can find information and rules in relation to farming in the Kaikōura zone.
To see if you need a land use consent to farm:
Open the 'farming la…
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/your-region/farmers-hub/zone-specific-rules-and-information/kaikoura/
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Some of the information on this page as well as linked documents may be out of date as a result of the Essential Freshwater Package introduced in September 2020.
Environment Canterbury is currently in the process of updating all relevant documentation. If you have any queries please contact Customer Services on 0800 324 636.
Below you can find information and rules in relation to farming in the Ōrāri Temuka Ōpihi Pareora zone.
To see if you need a land use consent to farm:
Open the '…
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/your-region/farmers-hub/zone-specific-rules-and-information/orari-temuka-opihi-paeora/
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