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Audrey Malone/Stuff Part of the Rangitata Diversion Race. The company has decided to relinquish its consent to take an extra 10 cumecs from the River when it is in high flow. (File) An irrigation company's decision to relinquish its consent to take extra water from the Rangitata River when in high flow has been hailed as a “gift to New Zealand” by anglers. Rangitata Diversion Race Management Ltd (RDRML) was awarded the consent to take an extra 10 cumecs in water when the river was flowing 110 cumecs or higher by an Environment Canterbury-appointed independent panel in 2018. However, app...

When two West Coast rivers flooded on the same day in 2019, the Waiho tore down a bridge and cut off local communities for 18 days, and the Fox eroded a landfill, exposing 135 tonnes of rubbish that contaminated beaches more than 100km away. A flood on the Rangitata River during the same year severed road, rail and power connections along the east coast of the South Island and cut a 25km path to the sea through prime dairy country. We shouldn’t be surprised when our rivers break their banks — that’s just a river being a river. Current management practices in Aotearoa treat rivers as st...

Disclosure statement Gary John Brierley receives (or received) funding from the Marsden Fund, Australian Research Council, Land and Water Australia (formerly LWRRDC) and various international collaborative grants (NERC in the UK, SPARC in India, Three Brothers funding in China). Dan C H Hikuroa (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Whanaunga, Pākehā) receives funding from Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga and the Marsden Fund. He is affiliated with Pūniu River Care Incorporated (Board member), Chair of Ngā Kaihautu Tikanga Taiao (Māori Statutory Advisory to the Environmental Protection Auth...

“If this trend continues, at the end of the next 30 years, there will only be a quarter of one per cent of the 1990 fishery. In other words: nothing.” Hall said immediate hands-on action was needed, rather than more internal reviews - and a number of factors had led to the decline across the council’s waterways. The CSI Fish and Game Council covers from the south bank of the Rakaia River to Moeraki and inland to the Southern Alps. “Fish and Game can do as much internal soul-searching and audits as they like, they can have a prized set of standing orders and governance policies.

JOHN BISSET/Stuff Tracy Tierney is signing off from Timaru District Council after more than a decade in governance and management. After more than a decade of being on either side of the Timaru District Council table, Tracy Tierney is moving on. Tierney, elected as a councillor in 2010, 2013 and 2016, became the council's group manager for environmental services in 2017, forcing a by-election which led to Timaru getting a new councillor in Nigel Bowen who was elected mayor in 2019. “So my stepping down led to a very good councillor and mayor,” said Tierney, who is moving to the Waimakar...