Water
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- CLUES - Catchment Land Use for Environmental Sustainability
May 2008
MAF in association with Ministry for the Environment has been working with NIWA and their subcontractors to develop a modelling system to assess the effects of land-use changes on water quality and socio-economic indicators. - Pathogen Pathways - Update on Groundwater Contamination
June 2005
MAF Technical Paper No: 2005/03
This study is part of a consortium approach to quantify the relative significance of key pathogen transmission routes from farm animals to water.- PDF Download [647K]
- The Water Programme of Action
10 December 2004
The Water Programme of Action is a Government initiative to determine how, as a country, we car fairly use, protect and preserve water. - Livestock Production Gains from Improved Drinking Water: Literature Review
8 December 2004
MAF Technical Paper No: 2004/07
This review summarises our current understanding of the impact of water quality on the productivity of livestock, with special reference to the situation as it may relate to New Zealand livestock farmers.- PDF Download [5.8K]
- Water Bibliography
September 2004
MAF Policy has compiled this bibliography to capture public documents on water quality, irrigation and efficiency of water use. The bibliography targets publications completed since 1995. - Property Rights in Water Quality: A Review of Stakeholders' Understanding and Behaviour [268K PDF]
April 2004
The Sustainable Development Programme of Action has identified problems with water quality in New Zealand associated with the impact of human activities. Discharges which affect water quality are generally divided into point source and non point source. - Economic Instruments for Managing Water Quality in New Zealand [790K PDF]
January 2004
In the area of water quality, economic instruments hold potential to speed adjustment towards optimal outcomes and stretch available resources. But there is devil in the detail. To be effective they must be well designed and, in particular, there must be adequate investment in science and in the administrative arrangements necessary to make them work. - Property Rights in Water: A Review of Stakeholders' Understanding and
Behaviour [424K PDF]
November 2003
Property rights are an integral element in the management and use of resources. Property rights define who has an interest in a resource, and the extent of that interest. They are defined by custom, convention and law and they affect the behaviour of people managing and using a resource. The government's Sustainable Development Programme of Action has identified problems with how water is allocated and used in New Zealand and it may be that these problems are related to the way in which property rights are held in water. - Groundwater Management Tools: Analytical Procedure and Case Studies
8 October 2003
MAF Technical Paper No: 2003/06
This report addresses an issue of groundwater management that was identified by regional council staff, as part of a project conducted by Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry and the Ministry for the Environment for encouraging and ensuring effective and efficient water allocation in New Zealand. - Economic Efficiency of Water Allocation
19th December 2001
This report is part of a series of sustainable resource development policy studies. The project goal is to investigate the means of allocating water in an economically efficient manner, and the way in which water allocation can contribute to regional economic development. - Future Water Allocation Issues
30th May 2002
Water supply and demand factors will be of increasing prominence in the agricultural investment decisions over the next 10 years and beyond. Water should now be recognised as the key resource element in the expansion plans of landowners. - Transferable Water Permits
1st August 1998
This project looked at understanding and documenting a community's views on the concept of Transferable Water Permits as an option for water management. - Water allocation conference
9 August 2002
Papers and presentations for the "Water: The Lifeblood of New Zealand" conference, held 23rd and 24th July in Wellington.
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