Irrigation

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal on whether the Ruataniwha irrigation project can go ahead in Hawke's Bay.

The Environmental Defence Society has filed court proceedings to try to stop farmers turning arid Mackenzie Country land into irrigated pasture.

Winemaker Rudi Bauer's mission is to make wines that capture the essence of Central Otago. In 1996 he established the Quartz Reef biodynamic vineyard on the north-facing lower hills of Bendigo Station…

Central Otago is rapidly changing. Intensive irrigation has transformed once semi-arid valleys into lush pastures that support a growing dairy industry. St Bathans based landscape artist Grahame…

Sitting in solitude at the foot of the Dunstan Range and looking out over the Manuherikia Valley, the Drybread Cemetery was run-down until local farmers Tony and Karen Glassford and Ross Naylor…

The $250m second stage of the Central Plains Water irrigation scheme in Canterbury has been fully approved by the shareholders.

The group behind a Wairarapa irrigation scheme has admitted some of the figures used to secure $800,000 of taxpayer money are not up to date.

Greenpeace has removed the site office of the proposed Ruataniwha Dam and transported it 100km to the office of the Hawke's Bay Regional Council.

An email campaign against the proposed Ruataniwha Dam in Hawke's Bay has infuriated local councillors.

The Crown company set up to oversee public financing of irrigation projects should be scrapped, says the Green Party.

More than half the $14 million spent by the Crown company that finances irrigation schemes has gone on administration costs.

About one in 10 serious water-consent breaches in Canterbury are being blamed on faulty water meter readings.

ECan has had a 'wake-up call', it says, after Forest and Bird accused it of failing to act against farmers who seriously breach their water rights.