Having Your Say: Submission Guide
To help you make your submission, here is a guide to the key questions we would like your views on. These questions are included in the "Have Your Say" boxes throughout this document. You can answer all, or just a few, of the questions - please indicate clearly in your submission which question and which issue or action you are commenting on.
A. Issues for action (Section 3, pages 9-12)
- Are the issues identified in Section 3 the main water management issues facing New Zealand? (Please comment on any of the issues.)
- What other issues should be considered when improving the freshwater management system?
B. Better freshwater management: a way forward (Section 4, pages 13-23)
Thirteen actions to improve freshwater management are described. For each action below:
- What do you think of the proposal identified?
- How well does it address the issues?
- Where applicable, what do you think about the other suggested alternative or complementary approaches?
A way forward: 13 actions
Action 1: Develop national policy statements
Action 2: Develop national environmental standards
Action 3: Address nationally important values
Action 4: Increase central government participation in regional planning
Action 5: Increase central government's support for local government
Action 6: Develop special mechanisms for regional councils
Action 7: Enhance the transfer of allocated water between users
Action 8: Develop market mechanisms to manage diffuse discharges
Action 9: Set requirements for regional freshwater plans to address key issues and challenges
Action 10: Enhance Māori participation
Action 11: Enable regional councils to allocate water to priority uses
Action 12: Raise awareness of freshwater problems and pressures, and promote solutions
Action 13: Collaboration between central and local government, scientists and key stakeholders, on pilot projects to demonstrate and test new water management initiatives.
C. Overall package of actions
- Overall, what do you think of the package of 13 preferred actions?
- Which are the most important or desirable actions in the package? Why?
- Which are the least important or least desirable actions? Why?
- Which of the other possible alternative or complementary approaches would you like implemented and why? (You may wish to propose a combination of proposed and possible actions.)
- Do you have any further suggestions?
