1. Water Policy Update Tauranga Moana Advisory Group

2. National Policy (Essential Freshwater)
Due 22 August – Early September
NPSFM:
Simplified
Te Mana o te Wai
New attributes
Ecosystem health
2023 timeline?
NES
Good practice
Priority catchments

3. Change Planning Standards (now in place)
National Policy Statement (NPS) for Highly Productive Land – late July to
September 2019.
Revised NPS on Urban Development Capacity – August and September 2019
National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity (discussion document) - October
Shared interests in freshwater – 2020 (Wai dependent?)
“The Crown acknowledges that Māori have rights and interests in freshwater, including accessing freshwater resources to achieve their fair development aspirations for underdeveloped land.”

5. Region-wide Quantity: Plan Change 9
“Interim/ Default”
Appeals sub-committee has met
Councils response to appellants is in circulation
Report to court 23 August
Impacted by change + uncertainty
Next step – mediation?

6. Rotorua: Nutrient Plan Change 10
At environment court
Stage 1 decision released
Court wants to see a modest amount of nitrogen found for Treaty Settlement land (i.e. further “cultural allocation”).

7. Te Maru o Kaituna
Working on their action plan

8. Change 12: Kaituna-Pongakawa- Waitahanui
Looking into groundwater and surface water quantity
Limited water supply
Some opportunities for more water use being modelled

9. Tauranga: Plan Change 16
Baseline (desktop) inventory of key data near-complete
Council has paused the Wai Māori Kaupapa pending NPSFM changes
Research into modelling (most helpful/supportive platform … if any).
Plan Change 15 (Rotorua) very similar

10. Challenges Different freshwater “stories” Matauranga Cultural flows
Mauri
Te tiriti
National policy/RMA (changing)
Science (uncertainty, complexity, cost)
Community, business, others …
Must weave good policy
LOTS up in the air ….