Our role - caring for our water

As your regional council, we’re investing more than ever before in looking after water.

We have many roles when it comes to caring for Northland’s water, including:

• Advice and funding for landowners 
• Water quality and quantity monitoring 
• Rivers and rainfall monitoring 
• Research 
• 24/7 Environmental Hotline

• Resource consents
• Compliance monitoring
• Rules for managing water quality and quantity 
• Partnerships and projects
• Enviroschools projects to improve water quality 

Enviroschools WaiMonitoring programme - testing and tracking water quality. Students are shown how to monitor water quality through a series of tests.