Tagged: environmental limits

The role of science and science communication in setting environmental limits - Waiology

Waiology • Mar 11, 2013 •

• environmental limits,
• limit-setting,
• science communication,
• Water governance,
• Water resource management,
• Water resources

By Ned Norton and Helen Rouse In water resource management under the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management (NPS) (2011), limit setting refers to the process of defining the amount of the resource that is available for use (in terms of both quantity and quality) while still meeting defined freshwater environment outcomes. A collaborative approach to setting limits … Read More

Water governance – we’re getting into overdraft - Waiology

Waiology • Mar 06, 2013 •

• environmental limits,
• integrated catchment management,
• limit-setting,
• Water allocation,
• Water governance

By Andrew Fenemor Like the challenge of balancing the household budget, we NZers are finding that despite being a ‘pluvial country’ we’re reaching allocation limits in many of our catchments. Looking back, 100+ years ago exploitation of water resources focused firstly on rivers. Then water use especially for irrigation and urban supplies moved to groundwater takes. Now as pumping … Read More