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

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

Reducing contaminants and improving wetland habitat

Trialling ways to improve the habitat of a roadside drain

Can nitrogen fertiliser use be reduced without compromising pasture growth?

Trialling a catchment wide approach to managing drains and waterways

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

A review of options to make it easier to take action on farm

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

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

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

How Living Water made choices about where to work

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

Taking a new approach to strategic planning

Using simple structures to manage peak flows

Trialling a catchment wide approach to managing drains and waterways

Helping landowners to put the right tree in the right place

What can economic cost benefit analysis tell us about the value of environment improvement activities?

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

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

Can nitrogen fertiliser use be reduced without compromising pasture growth?

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

Reducing contaminants and improving wetland habitat

Can we control an invasive weed with Brazilian beetles?

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

Restoring the lake edge of Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere

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

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.