Story: Water resources

More links and websites

• New Zealand river environment classification user guide

  This report, prepared by the Ministry for the Environment by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), is a guide to the system used for classifying New Zealand rivers (PDF 5 MB).

• Water physical stock account 1995–2010

  A Statistics New Zealand information on the quantities of fresh water in New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

• Harding, Jon, and others, eds. Freshwaters of New Zealand. Wellington: New Zealand Hydrological Society and New Zealand Limnological Society, 2004.
• Mahon, Sam. The water thieves. Dunedin: Longacre Press, 2006.
• Mosley, M. Paul, ed. Waters of New Zealand. Wellington: New Zealand Hydrological Society, 1992.
• Mosley, M. Paul, and Charles P. Pearson, eds. Floods and droughts: the New Zealand experience. Wellington: New Zealand Hydrological Society, 1997.
• Parkinson, Brian, and Geoffrey Cox. A field guide to New Zealand’s lakes and rivers. Auckland: Random Century, 1990.
• Young, David, and Bruce Foster. Faces of the river: New Zealand’s living water. Auckland: TVNZ Publishing, 1986.