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The Whanganui River. Photo: 123RF Māori from Ruapehu, Whanganui, South Taranaki and Rangitīkei are organising regionally to develop a comprehensive position on resource management reforms and freshwater rights and interests. A hui in Whanganui heard from technical advisors to the Freshwater Iwi Leaders Group on some of the government s high-level proposals for resource management and water reforms. Kaitiaki taiao for Te Rūnanga o Ngā Wairiki Ngāti Apa Chris Shenton said the changes and proposed changes are numerous. There s the RMA reforms, Three Waters Reform, the National Policy on Freshwater, and then the rights and interests in fresh water, which are at the core of it for whānau, hapū and iwi, Shenton said. ....