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Water Pipeline through Waitakere, New Zealand. Water supply and sanitation in New Zealand is provided for most people by infrastructure owned by territorial authorities including city councils in urban areas and district councils in rural areas. As at 2021, there are 67 different asset-owning organisations.
The Hydrological Society of New Zealand was set up in 1961 to "further the science of hydrology and its application to the understanding and management of New Zealand's water resources". [ 9 ] Land Air Water Aotearoa was established by regional councils, research institutes and government entities to find the balance between using natural ...
Walls for Water: Pioneer Dam Building in New Zealand. Palmerston North: The Dunmore Press Ltd. ISBN 0-86469-313-3 . Retired civil engineer and dam inspector examines the development of New Zealand dam construction techniques and uses from the 1860s to the 1950s for municipal water supply, mining, kauri logging and development of the Lake ...
Manapōuri Power Station is an underground hydroelectric power station on the western arm of Lake Manapouri in Fiordland National Park, in the South Island of New Zealand. At 854 MW installed capacity (although limited to 800 MW due to resource consent limits [3]), it is the largest hydroelectric power station in New Zealand, and the second ...
With a generating capacity of 540 megawatts (720,000 hp), Benmore Power Station is the second largest [1] hydro station in New Zealand behind Manapouri, and the largest dam in the country. Construction of the dam and hydroelectric station began in 1958 at a cost of $62 million.
The company was first incorporated as Wellington Water Management Limited on 9 July 2003. The name was changed to Capacity Infrastructure Services Limited in July 2009, and in September 2014 the name was changed to Wellington Water Limited, when Capacity Infrastructure was merged with the water supply group of Greater Wellington Regional Council.
Lake Taupō, New Zealand's largest lake Lake Wakatipu from Queenstown Lake Tekapo Lake Rotorua from above Rotorua Lake Hauroko, New Zealand's deepest lake Ōkārito Lagoon. This is a list of lakes in New Zealand. A lake's location is identified by the region and either the territorial authority or national park (N.P.). There are:
The Local Water Done Well policy consists of three stages: repealing the previous Labour Government's Three Waters legislation; passing the Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Act 2024 to establish the framework and preliminary arrangements for the new water services system; and passing the Local Government (Water Services) Bill to establish the endurance settings ...