Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management
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The Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management was established in 2009 as a joint partnership between Canterbury and Lincoln Universities. It has a range of research priority themes under which research is conducted by a multi-disciplinary group of approximately 50 academic staff members from both universities with expertise in freshwater issues. Their postgraduate students make up a large group of freshwater researchers. The Centre provides teaching courses and qualifications in water resource issues and their management, plus maintains strong links to existing water organisations and stakeholders in order to improve skills, knowledge, and awareness in the water sector. For a list of Water Resource Management theses submitted at the University of Canterbury, go here.
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The effects of high lake levels due to climate change on lakeside communities and adjacent land use: Case study: Lake Ellesmere/Te Waihora
(Lincoln University, 2019)This research aims to assess the effects of sea-level rise on Lake Ellesmere/Te Waihora’s current opening regime and consequently on adjacent land and it’s lakeside communities. The research also aims to assess Lake ... -
Upscaling of point-scale groundwater recharge measurements using machine learning: A case study in New Zealand and Colombia
(Lincoln University, 2019)Estimating groundwater (GW) recharge rates is essential for water resources decision-making, in particular for dynamic regional-scale allocation. Typically, recharge has been estimated either based on models that require ... -
Investigation of nutrient management trade-offs using the Land Utilisation Capability Indicator (LUCI). A Canterbury, New Zealand, case study
(Lincoln University, 2019)Although agricultural productivity aims to meet global food demand, its expansion and intensification has led to an increase in nutrient load in waterways affecting water quality. This places farmers under pressure in ... -
How has contamination to water supply altered Havelock North business owners’ perspectives on water?
(Lincoln University, 2018)Safe drinking water is essential to public health. In August 2016 an outbreak of gastroenteritis in Havelock North, New Zealand, shook the public’s trust in the water supply service. Over 5,500 of the town’s 14,000 residents ... -
Development of an integrative water quality monitoring programme for Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere
(Lincoln University, 2018)Fresh water lakes are highly valued in today’s world. The use and management of this freshwater resource is critical to all four well-beings (social, economic, environmental, and cultural) worldwide and specifically (for ...
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