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Kōrero: Water resources

Irrigated crops

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Irrigated crops

On the Heretaunga plains, near Hastings, crops are irrigated using groundwater. Around one-third of the water used in New Zealand comes from groundwater resources.

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Mike Scarsbrook rāua ko Charles Pearson, Water resources – Managing water resources, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/18205/irrigated-crops (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Mike Scarsbrook rāua ko Charles Pearson, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.