Many thanks to the regional, district and city council staff that provided water quality data, and details of analytical methods. Thanks also to our NIWA colleagues for their contributions: Katie Image and Keri Niven classified sites, organized data and computed river kilometres, George Payne computed trend statistics, Mark Weatherhead and Helen Herron produced GIS maps, Ross Woods, Roddy Henderson and Kathy Walter prepared flow estimates for flow adjustments, and Graham McBride reviewed the report.