A new $600,000 computer system being installed by the Waitaki District Council will make more information and services available online to people living in the district and to council staff.
A plan by Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean to form a trust for a collaborative approach toward the future of the Omarama and Mackenzie basins has been met with caution by the Waitaki District Council.
Applicants wanting to use water in the upper Waitaki catchment have been declined a final say on the issue - at least at this stage - by an Environment Canterbury panel.
Making life easier for migrants coming to live or who are already in the Waitaki district is the aim of a new project by the Ministry of Social Development through the Waitaki Multicultural Council.
A new committee which will help manage water in the lower Waitaki River catchment and Waimate district with input from the community was formally launched in Oamaru last night.
A major party involved in hearings on 110 applications to use water, mainly for irrigation, in the upper Waitaki catchment has had no contact with the applicants over conditions on any resource consents that may be granted.
Parents of babies living in the Waitaki district from next month can be more environmentally conscious under a new subsidy scheme for cloth nappies being launched by the Waitaki District Council.
A new World War 1 and 2 memorial, dedicated at Omarama on Saturday, will become a focal point for the town, Upper Waitaki Returned and Services Association president Michael Blackstock says.
An agreement which guarantees a $2.75 million government grant for the Alps 2 Ocean cycle trail through the Mackenzie and Waitaki districts was signed on Friday at Twizel.
A community group spawned by the abandoned Project Aqua power scheme along the lower Waitaki River has now became a major guardian with an important role to play in the future.
Trish Hurley, of the Waitaki Resource Recovery Park in Oamaru, starts to pack up food, water containers and thermos flasks for transport to Christchurch on Monday.
More babies could be wearing cloth nappies if the Waitaki District Council adopts a scheme aimed at reducing the number of disposable nappies dumped in its landfills.
An Environment Court appeal against water being granted from the lower Waitaki River for a new $200 million scheme irrigating up to 40,000ha in the Waimate district has been tentatively set down for a hearing in February and March next year.
After seven years of delays and consideration, the final resource consent decision has been made on using water from the lower Waitaki River and its tributaries, including the Hakataramea River.