Surface water and groundwater resources of Christchurch City and Selwyn District: A searchable meta-database for finding information

Abstract

A meta-database of information on the surface and groundwater resources of Christchurch City and Selwyn District has been created, in response to concerns that information on these freshwater resources is currently dispersed and difficult to find. This meta-database can now be used by the community to find out about papers, reports and official communications regarding the water resources of Christchurch and Selwyn District, learn where the documents are held in hardcopy or online, and in some cases access the document or its data directly via the database. The database includes over 750 references; mainly university research theses and reports, technical reports, scientific papers, official communications, and relevant policy and strategy documents. All information has been checked for objectivity and relevance, before being collated into “search groups” and linked to keywords to enable the database to be searched. A brief summary of content is provided for each reference. The meta-database is hosted on the Waterways Centre’s website (www.waterways.ac.nz), and can be searched by entering either a key subject word or a document type.