NZ Govt Revamps Infrastructure Funding to Boost Housing

The New Zealand government has announced a comprehensive overhaul of infrastructure funding mechanisms to bolster housing development. This initiative, part of the “Going for Housing Growth” strategy, seeks to address critical challenges in land supply, infrastructure, and growth incentives. Transition to a Development Levy System Central to this reform is the replacement of the existing […]

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Auckland Drought Alert March 2025

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Auckland’s Rainfall Brings Temporary Relief, but Drought Concerns Persist While Auckland has experienced some rainfall over the past few days, it’s essential to recognise that these showers haven’t alleviated the underlying drought conditions. As of March 5, 2025, Watercare has activated its drought management plan due to dam storage levels dropping to 66.5%, significantly below

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Addressing Infrastructure Challenges in New Zealand

News / Claudia Clark

New Zealand’s urban development is increasingly constrained by aging and overburdened infrastructure. Developers often face high costs, shared investment obligations, or outright restrictions due to capacity limitations. Expanding infrastructure requires careful planning, significant funding, and political stability at both local and national levels. Water reform remains a pressing issue. Councils and utilities are developing Water

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Protecting Auckland’s Infrastructure: Watersmart Implements FloodFree Barriers for Critical Pump Station

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In late January 2023, Auckland experienced an unprecedented deluge as a summer’s worth of rain fell in a single day. The torrential downpour caused widespread flash flooding across the city, resulting in nearly $2 billion in property damage. Among the affected areas was the suburb of Wairau Valley, where floodwaters inundated a critical wastewater pump

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Community organisations sought for revolutionary New Zealand RainStick Shower pilot

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New Zealand chosen to run the international pilot programme!

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PMG Funds Building Water Efficiency with Watersmart

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PMG Funds building water efficiency with Watersmart Leading New Zealand commercial property fund manager, PMG Funds, has engaged Watersmart to support its drive to improve and reduce the company’s water footprint. After meeting up at the FMANZ Conference last year, PMG, which has long been a vocal leader on the planetary and commercial benefits of

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World Water Week

News / Watersmart Marketing

World Water Week 25-29 August 2024 Next week is World Water Week, which is a great time to reflect on the key water issues we are facing, not only as a nation, but also around the globe. Held since 1991 in Stockholm, this year’s theme is ‘Bridging Borders: Water for a Peaceful and Sustainable Future’.

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House of the year

News / Watersmart Marketing

House of the Year People’s Choice Award We’re very excited to have Aquacomb featured in one of this year’s People’s Choice Award for House of the Year finalists. Built by Universal Homes, Aquacomb was installed in the 70sqm apartment in Northcote, and it will help its future owners save significant amounts of water. Aquacomb is

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LowCO – decentralising water infrastructure eases stress

News / @angelac

When attending a number of conferences around the country over recent weeks, the challenge of funding to enable growth kept emerging as a core topic – and within it the issues of infrastructure stress, funding and resilience. Our attention was particularly grabbed by a point made with power by noted economist Shamubeel Eaqub at the

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AI Feature to Improve Safety

News / @angelac

AI technology is being used to improve public safety during the operation of automated flood barriers, such as deploying large hydraulically actuated tilting flood barriers. With an increase in flood mitigation projects, and more and more flood barriers being installed in public spaces, there have been significant design considerations around the safe operation of these

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NZ Govt Revamps Infrastructure Funding to Boost Housing

Auckland Drought Alert March 2025

Addressing Infrastructure Challenges in New Zealand

Protecting Auckland’s Infrastructure: Watersmart Implements FloodFree Barriers for Critical Pump Station

Community organisations sought for revolutionary New Zealand RainStick Shower pilot

PMG Funds Building Water Efficiency with Watersmart

World Water Week

House of the year

LowCO – decentralising water infrastructure eases stress

AI Feature to Improve Safety

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