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Manukau Harbour
Forum
11 February
2022
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Auckland’s Water Strategy
File No.: CP2022/00621
Te take mō te
pūrongo
Purpose of the report
1. To
seek Manukau Harbour Forum feedback on the Auckland Water Strategy framework
before it is recommended for adoption by the Environment and Climate Change
Committee.
Whakarāpopototanga matua
Executive summary
2. The
Water Strategy sets a vision for Tāmaki Makaurau /
Auckland’s waters and provides strategic
direction for investment and action across the Auckland Council group.
3. The
vision of the Water Strategy is: te mauri o te wai o Tāmaki Makaurau, the
life-sustaining capacity of Auckland’s water, is protected and enhanced.
4. The
Manukau Harbour Forum and local boards have previously provided feedback on the
2019 public discussion document (Our Water Future - Tō Tātou Wai Ahu
Ake Nei), and this was considered in the development of the Auckland Water Strategy.
Local board, including the Manukau Harbour Forum, feedback is now being sought
on the draft Auckland Water Strategy framework.
5. The core content for the Auckland Water Strategy framework was
endorsed at the Environment and Climate Change Committee on the 2nd of December
2021 (ECC/2021/44). The
content is now being drafted into a final document and will be brought to the
Environment and Climate Change Committee for consideration and adoption in
March 2022.
6. Staff
workshopped the framework with the Environment and Climate Change Committee and
local board chairpersons throughout September-November 2021. The chairpersons
received explanatory memos and supporting material ahead of workshops. Feedback
during those workshops shaped the core content adopted at committee in December
2021.
7. The
Manukau Harbour Forum had a specific workshop presentation on 8th October 2021.
8. Refer
to Attachment A to the agenda report for the core content of the Auckland Water
Strategy framework.
Ngā tūtohunga
Recommendation/s
That the Manukau Harbour Forum:
a) provide
feedback on the eight strategic shifts of the Water Strategy framework:
i) Te
Tiriti Partnership
ii) Empowered
Aucklanders
iii) Sustainable
Allocation and Equitable Access
iv) Regenerative
Water Infrastructure
v) Water
Security
vi) Integrated
Land use and Water Planning
vii) Restoring
and Enhancing Water Ecosystems
viii) Pooling
Knowledge.
Horopaki
Context
9. The Auckland Council group has a broad role in delivering water outcomes:
· Auckland Council provides storm water infrastructure and services;
resource management regulation, consenting, monitoring, and compliance for
effects on fresh water and coastal water; and research, reporting, policy, and
strategy functions
· Watercare provides drinking water and wastewater infrastructure and
services
· Auckland Transport influences land use and the storm water network.
The transport network is Auckland’s largest public realm asset and
investment.
10. The Auckland Council (the Water Strategy) project began as a
response to the 2017 Section 17A Value for Money review of three waters[1]
delivery across the council group. The review recommended the council
produces a three waters strategy. The scope of the water strategy was subsequently
expanded to incorporate other water related responsibilities, outcomes, and
domains (e.g. natural waterbodies, groundwater, coastal waters, etc).
11. A discussion document (Our Water Future - Tō Tātou Wai Ahu
Ake Nei) was consulted on in 2019. The purpose of this document was to elicit
community views on the future of Auckland’s waters and how the council
should be planning for these in its water strategy.
12. This process established a high-level vision for Auckland’s
waters, ‘te Mauri o te Wai o Tāmaki Makaurau - the life-sustaining
capacity of Auckland’s water - is protected and enhanced’, and
presented key values, issues and principles that were designed to inform
strategy development. Actions and targets were not discussed. Strategic
direction, actions and targets have been identified as part of the subsequent
strategy development.
13. The Water Strategy sets a vision for Auckland’s waters and
provides strategic direction for investment and action across the council
group. The council has developed the strategy drawing on:
· relevant legislation and central government direction
· the council’s strategies, policies and plans, and guidance
including:
o The Auckland
Plan 2050 - includes high-level approaches for how we can prioritise the health
of water in Auckland by adopting a te ao Māori approach to protecting our
waters; adapting to a changing water future; developing Aucklanders’
stewardship; restoring our damaged environments; protecting our significant
water bodies; and using Auckland’s growth to achieve better water
outcomes.
o Te
Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri Auckland's Climate Action Plan - acknowledges
that climate change will mean a changing water future and identifies
integrated, adaptive planning approaches and water-sensitive design as key
enablers of a climate-ready Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland.
· the council’s Three Waters Value for Money (s17A) Review 2017
· the Our Water Future - Tō Tātou Wai Ahu Ake Nei discussion
document framework and feedback from local boards, community and mana whenua
from 2019
· individual iwi engagement and Tāmaki Makaurau Mana Whenua Forum
engagement in 2021
· internal staff engagement during 2020-2021
· the Water Sensitive Cities Index and benchmarking in 2021.
14. The intent of the Water Strategy is that the council fulfils its
obligations to identify and plan for future challenges across its broad range
of functions that affect water outcomes. These challenges are:
· protecting and enhancing the health of waterbodies and their
ecosystems
· delivering three-waters services at the right time, in the right
place, at the right scale, as the city grows
· having enough water for people now and in the future
· reducing flood and coastal inundation risk over time
· water affordability for Aucklanders
· improving how the council works with its treaty partners
· improving how the council organises itself to achieve these
outcomes.
15. The Water Strategy is intended to guide decision-making to 2050.
Staff have therefore considered Tāmaki Makaurau’s broader context
over the life of the strategy including:
· land use change, as driven by population growth in particular
· mitigating and adapting to climate change
· partnership approach with mana whenua
· growing iwi capacity and further settlements that will affect governance
structures
· technological change.
16. Council has also considered the direction from central government to
deliver management of freshwater, land use and development in catchments in an
integrated and sustainable way to avoid, remedy or mitigate adverse effects,
including cumulative effects[2].
Central Government Three Waters Reform
17. The Water Strategy has been developed during a period of significant
uncertainty for the council group. Central government has recently indicated
that participation in the proposed Three Waters Reforms will be mandated in the
planned enabling legislation. The reforms would move management of three waters
assets to a new inter-regional entity. Economic regulation is also planned.
18. While the final form of the proposed structures is not known, it is
important to understand that the proposed reform would not affect all areas of
delivery for the Water Strategy. Council would retain its:
· core role as
environmental regulator
· core role as
regulatory planning authority
· core treaty
partnership role for local government
· core role to
engage and be the voice for Auckland communities
· management of
the council group’s own water consumption (towards consumption targets).
19. The Water Strategy provides strategic direction to the council
group. Over the next few years, as the shape and impacts of proposed reform
become clearer, the council would use the strategy in appropriate ways to
provide direction to any processes that arise. This strategy would become council’s
position on the aims and outcomes sought from any new entity.
Tātaritanga me ngā
tohutohu
Analysis and advice
20. The purpose of this report is to provide local boards with an
opportunity to feedback on the Auckland Water Strategy framework before it is
finalised and recommended for adoption by the Environment and Climate Change
Committee.
The Water Strategy Framework
21. The Water Strategy framework sets a vision for the future
(previously adopted in 2019), a foundational partnership and eight key
strategic shifts to guide change. The vision of the Water Strategy is: te mauri
o te wai o Tāmaki Makaurau, the life-sustaining capacity of
Auckland’s water, is protected and enhanced.
22. The framework articulates Auckland’s context, challenges,
aims, and required actions. The framework is designed to make implementation
steps clear for council to track progress and so that communities and partners
can hold council accountable to progress over time.
23. The framework consists of:
· vision
· treaty context
· challenges
· cross-cutting themes
· strategic shifts and associated aims and actions
· implementation.
24. The diagram below shows the Auckland Water Strategy Framework. Refer to Attachment A for the core content of
the Auckland Water Strategy framework, including the aims and actions
associated with each strategic shift.
Vision: te
mauri o te wai o Tāmaki Makaurau, the life-sustaining capacity of
Auckland’s water, is protected and enhanced
25. Auckland’s vision for the future is ‘te mauri o te wai o
Tāmaki Makaurau, the life-sustaining capacity of Auckland’s waters,
is protected and enhanced’.
26. The Water Strategy vision describes Tāmaki Makaurau’s
desired long-term future and will guide council decision-making over time
towards that agreed goal. The vision outlines a future for Tāmaki Makaurau
where the region’s waters are healthy, thriving, and treasured. This
vision also describes a future where the deep connections between water, the
environment and people are recognised and valued.
27. The mauri – the life sustaining capacity – of water is a
fundamentally intuitive concept. It is something all Aucklanders can
appreciate. There is a qualitative difference that is readily felt and sensed
when walking alongside a healthy waterbody compared to a waterbody that has
been channeled, polluted, or piped, for example.
28. The Our Water Future public discussion document received strong
support for the vision. In the document, the vision was explained as:
· special to
this place (Auckland)
· recognising
the vital relationship between our water and our people
· recognising
the role of mana whenua as kaitiaki within the region
· representing
values that can unify us in our actions
· setting a
long-term aspiration for the way we take care of our waters.
29. The council set a long-term aspiration for Auckland when it adopted
this vision in 2019. An aspiration for a future in which:
a) Aucklanders
are able to swim in, and harvest from, our rivers, estuaries and harbours.
b) Life
in and sustained by water is thriving.
c) Everyone
has access to enough water of the appropriate quality to meet their needs.
30. Adopting this vision recognised that addressing Auckland’s
water issues and challenges over time requires a bold vision and new ways of
working together with council’s treaty partners and communities. The
vision signals a greater recognition of a Māori worldview, of
environmental limits and interconnectedness of people and environment.
31. The vision is also consistent with council’s obligations and
aspirations, as well as central government direction. For example,
· the purpose of
local government is to take a sustainable development approach to the broad
role of promoting the four well-beings
· the purpose of
the Resource Management Act is sustainable management of natural and physical
resources in ways that enables the four well-beings
· Te Mauri o te
Wai aligns with te Mana o te Wai in the National Policy Statement –
Freshwater Management 2020 (NPS-FM), which provides for local expression
· the Auckland Plan
directs council to ‘Apply a Māori worldview to treasure and protect
our natural environment (taonga tuku iho)’
· mauri is
embedded in the Auckland Unitary Plan
· the Our Water
Future public discussion document introduced the vision of te mauri o te wai o
Tāmaki Makaurau and applying a Māori world view
· Te mauri o te
wai is referenced in the council’s 2021 Infrastructure Strategy.
Over-arching
challenges
32. The intent of the Water Strategy is that the council fulfils its
obligations to identify and plan for future challenges across its broad range
of functions that affect water outcomes. Tāmaki Makaurau faces several
overarching challenges that inform the strategic direction set by the Water
Strategy. These are:
· protecting and
enhancing the health of waterbodies and their ecosystems
· delivering
three-waters services at the right time, in the right place, at the right
scale, as the city grows
· having enough
water for people now and in the future
· reducing flood
and coastal inundation risk over time
· affordability
for Aucklanders
· improving how
the council works with its treaty partners
· improving how
the council organises itself.
33. Attachment A provides a more detailed description of each
over-arching challenge.
Treaty
Context
34. Māori have enduring rights and interests related to water as a
taonga and as indigenous peoples. These rights are affirmed under Te Tiriti o
Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi and international law.
35. Auckland Council is committed to meeting its statutory Te Tiriti o
Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi responsibilities. The council recognises these
responsibilities are distinct from the Crown’s treaty obligations and
fall within a local government Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland context. Like
the council, mana whenua are long-term contributors to water outcomes.
36. This section within the framework acknowledges that the treaty
provides the context for partnership between council and mana whenua for the
protection, management, and enhancement of water.
Cross-cutting
themes
37. In addition to over-arching challenges, there are cross-cutting
themes that inform the council’s strategic approach in the Water
Strategy. The cross-cutting themes must be accounted for as the actions in the
strategy are delivered.
Climate
Change
38. Water and climate change are intrinsically linked. The twin
challenges of mitigation and adaptation have been integrated within the
strategy.
Equity
39. The Auckland Plan 2050 describes sharing prosperity with all
Aucklanders as a key challenge now and for the future. Auckland has equitable
access to water supply and sanitation and performs well against international
peers; however, there are areas for improvement that are captured in the
strategy. Other equity issues such as flood protection and access to blue-green
space for recreation are also considered within the strategy.
Strategic
Shifts
40. The Water Strategy framework includes eight overarching strategic
shifts. Each strategic shift is intended to represent long-term change in the
council’s approach towards a stated aim. To achieve this, each strategic
shift has associated actions with indicative implementation timings identified.
Shifts are designed so that the council can add actions over time to the
framework as progress is made.
41. The strategic shifts were arrived at by considering the changes that
the council must make to respond to the challenges and cross-cutting themes
above, as well as responding to the water sensitive cities benchmarking
undertaken. Actions were developed and grouped according to council functions
so that they might be more easily implemented by areas in the council group.
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Table one: Water Strategy Strategic Shifts and Associated Aims
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Strategic shift
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Aim
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Te Tiriti
Partnership
The council and mana whenua working together in agreed
ways on agreed things.
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The council and
mana whenua iwi are partners in the protection, management, and enhancement
of water.
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Empowering
Aucklanders
Working with
Aucklanders for better water outcomes.
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Aucklanders are
empowered to shape decisions about and are prepared for our changing water
future.
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Regenerative
Water Infrastructure
Auckland’s
water infrastructure is regenerative, resilient, low carbon, and increases
the mauri of water. It’s able to be seen and understood by Aucklanders.
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Regenerative
infrastructure systems enhance the life-sustaining capacity of water (mauri).
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Sustainable
Allocation and Equitable Access
Prioritising
mauri when using water, to sustain the environment and people in the long
term.
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When the
council allocates water from the natural environment, water use is
sustainable, and considers the health and wellbeing of ecosystems and people.
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Water
Security
Water
abundance and security for growing population through efficient use and
diverse sources.
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Auckland
captures, uses, and recycles water efficiently so that everyone has access to
enough water of the appropriate quality to meet their needs.
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Integrated
Land use and Water Planning
Integrating
land use and water planning at a regional, catchment and site scale.
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Water and its
life-sustaining capacity is a central principle in land management and
planning decisions.
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Restoring
and Enhancing Water Ecosystems
Catchment-based
approaches to the health of water ecosystems.
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Auckland has
thriving and sustainable natural water ecosystems that support life, food
gathering and recreation.
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Pooling
Knowledge
Shared
understanding enabling better decisions for our water future.
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Auckland has
the knowledge about water needed to make good quality, timely, and strategic
decisions about water.
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Implementation
42. Successfully delivering on the vision and integrated aims of the
Water Strategy will require a coordinated and sustained approach to delivery
across the council group.
43. The Water Strategy sets out a range of actions to be implemented
over time for the council group. The actions fall within two broad timeframes:
near term (year one and years one – three) and medium term (years four
– ten). Near term actions are prescriptive and specific. Medium term
actions are more illustrative and require further development to implement
successfully.
44. To implement the Water Strategy, the council will need:
· to take a
consistent, sustained approach to putting te mauri o te wai at the centre of
council group planning and investment decisions and action
· the skills and
capacity to deliver on the water strategy, legislative requirements, and
partnership relationships
· a strong
culture of holistic planning, action, reporting and post-implementation review
that feeds back into adaptive planning processes
· clarity of the
roles and responsibilities across the council group, with all teams directed
and accountable for their role and function
· to give mana
whenua clear sight of the council’s work on water and enable
participation/direction.
45. Changes required to give effect to the implementation of the strategy
include:
· appoint
Executive Lead Team Water Lead (complete)
· Water Strategy
programme implementation coordinator
· coordinated
workforce planning to fill gaps and changing needs
· update
investment prioritisation criteria to reflect the Water Strategy
· council
reporting on te mauri o te wai
· integrated
Asset Investment and Asset Management Planning, with an independent audit
process.
Central
government context
46. The Water Strategy considers and responds to current and expected
direction from central government to:
· deliver
management of freshwater, land use and development in catchments in an
integrated and sustainable way
· a
strengthening of the partnership between the council and mana whenua in
environmental management goal setting and decision-making frameworks
· the inclusion
of Te Mana o Te Wai in the Auckland Unitary Plan
· a switch from
an individual activity effects-based assessment (under the Resource Management
Act 1991) to a more holistic limits-based approach, reflecting the need to
better manage cumulative effects on water bodies
· an expectation
of stronger enforcement of regulatory environmental obligations through policy
effectiveness reporting (feedback loops between policy and actions) and
improved compliance monitoring and enforcement reporting.
Tauākī whakaaweawe
āhuarangi
Climate impact statement
47. Water and climate change are intrinsically linked. Climate change is
a cross cutting theme of the Water Strategy (along with equity). The twin
challenges of mitigation and adaptation were integrated into the
strategy’s core content as it was developed.
48. Climate change will have wide-ranging implications for the issues
raised in the Water Strategy, including:
· influencing demand for water use
· affecting water availability of a given water source over time
· increasing flood and coastal inundation hazard risk to life and
property.
49. Improving our mitigation of and resilience to these impacts via the
approaches described in the Water Strategy aligns with council’s existing
goals and work programmes for climate action.
50. The physical impacts of climate change will have implications both
for water management (including Māori water rights) in Auckland, and for
related issues such as energy supply, social welfare, food security, and
Māori land.
51. Water infrastructure has significant embodied carbon emissions. The
regenerative water infrastructure strategic shift sets the council on a path to
zero or low emissions water infrastructure.
52. The projected impacts of climate change on Auckland’s aquatic
environments, and the associated risks, are detailed in two key report series:
the Auckland Region Climate Change Projections and Impacts[3] and the Climate
Change Risk in Auckland technical report series[4].
Ngā whakaaweawe me
ngā tirohanga a te rōpū Kaunihera
Council group impacts and views
53. There is broad agreement across the council group that better
integration in water-related matters is needed, and that improvements in
investment and decision-making processes are possible.
54. Staff have worked across the council group to develop the Water
Strategy’s core content through working groups, workshops, and review of
material.
55. The strategic shifts and actions in the Water Strategy represent
significant change in the way that the council group approaches water-related
challenges and opportunities in Auckland. In time, the way that staff work and
the tools they have available will change. Greater and more coordinated
oversight of resources that are used to deliver water outcomes is essential.
56. The Water Strategy embeds concepts like mauri and water-sensitive
design into council’s approach going forward. These actions require careful,
considered partnership with mana whenua to create new frameworks that will
guide decision-making. Coordinated education and upskilling programmes for
staff will be needed to enable successful implementation.
57. Of note is the action to implement a council group knowledge
governance framework for water. This will mean review and redesign of processes
governing the production of knowledge; how council mobilises knowledge for
different users and uses; and how council promotes the use of knowledge.
58. The framework will help facilitate a culture change across the
council group, encouraging the sharing of knowledge across departments and
organisations, and better connecting teams in the ownership of knowledge and
insights.
Ngā whakaaweawe
ā-rohe me ngā tirohanga a te poari ā-rohe
Local impacts and local board views
59. Local boards have a strong interest and role in improving water
outcomes across Auckland and currently fund many local projects focused on
restoration of local waterways.
60. The Manukau Harbour Forum is a collective comprised of
representatives of the nine Auckland local boards on the shores of the Manukau
Harbour. The forum was created in 2010 in response to concern about the
deteriorating state of the Manukau Harbour and the urgent need for a
collaborative response to improve its condition.
61. Staff workshopped the Water Strategy framework, including each
strategic shift and associated aims and actions, with the Environment and
Climate Change Committee and local board chairpersons September to November
2021. Manukau Harbour Forum Chairperson Jon Turner was also invited to attend.
The chairpersons received explanatory memos and supporting material ahead of workshops. Feedback during those workshops shaped the core content adopted at
committee in December 2021.
62. Previous local board and Manukau Harbour Forum feedback informed
development of the Water Strategy. Staff held workshops with all local boards
in late 2018 on the Our Water Future – Tō Tātou Wai Ahu Ake Nei
discussion document and sought their feedback through formal business meetings.
Local board and Manukau Harbour Forum resolutions were provided to the
Environment and Community Committee in December 2018 (ENV/2018/168)
when the discussion document was approved for public
consultation.
63. During public engagement, local boards hosted many of the Have Your
Say consultation events and helped to ensure local views were fed into the
feedback. This feedback has been an input to the development of the strategy. There
was broad support for the vision, values, issues, processes and principles
presented in the discussion document. The Environment and Climate Change
Committee adopted the framework as the basis for developing the Auckland water
strategy.
64. Key themes from local board engagement are presented below. Staff
have designed the strategic shifts and actions to address these key themes
– these are noted in italics:
i) A
desire to improve engagement with local communities and deliver targeted
education programmes – Empowering Aucklanders strategic shift.
ii) Recognising
water is a limited resource, that access to water is a human right and supply
must be allocated fairly – Water Security and Sustainable Allocation
and Equitable Access strategic shifts.
A need to improve the
diminishing water quality of local water bodies including urban streams, gulfs
and harbours – Restoring and Enhancing water ecosystems strategic
shift.
iii) A
need to carefully manage urban development and take up opportunities to embed
water-sensitive design - Integrated Land use and Water Planning strategic
shift.
iv) A
need for proactive monitoring and enforcement, supported by a robust and
transparent evidence base – Pooling Knowledge strategic shift.
65. Feedback on several water-related topics that were not part of the
discussion document’s scope was also received from local boards. This
included water infrastructure, the importance of future proofing our assets,
incorporating sustainable options such as greywater reuse and roof collection,
and the management of contaminant run-off and stormwater discharges.
66. Staff considered these important issues and they have been
incorporated into the strategy – see Regenerative Water Infrastructure
strategic shift.
Tauākī whakaaweawe
Māori
Māori impact statement
67. Every iwi and hapū has associations with particular waterbodies[5]
that are reflected in their whakapapa, waiata, and whaikōrero tuku iho
(stories of the past). Protecting the health and mauri of our freshwater
ecosystems is fundamental to providing for the food, materials, customary
practices, te reo Māori, and overall well-being of iwi and hapū.
68. Engagement with Māori that has informed this work includes:
· Mana Whenua
Kaitiaki Forum Guidance to the Water Strategy 2019
· submissions to
the Our Water Future Public Discussion Document 2019
· Te Pou Taiao
engagement throughout 2021
· individual
engagement with iwi partners 2021 including face-to-face hui.
69. Refer to Our Water Future: Report on Māori response to Auckland
Council Water Strategy consultation for further information on the submissions
of Māori who responded to public discussion document consultation. Key
themes from Māori engagement are presented below. Staff have designed the
strategic shifts and actions to address these key themes – these are
noted in italics:
i) Māori
are committed to the maintenance of the mauri of water and they want to be a
part of the conversation – Te Tiriti Partnership and Empowering
Aucklanders strategic shifts.
ii) Awareness/Education
(concerns for peoples’ priorities, climate change has arrived –
inevitable there will be changing water patterns) – Empowering
Aucklanders strategic shift.
iii) Water
sovereignty (should be allowed water tanks on our properties) – Water
Security strategic shift.
iv) Reciprocity
(look after our environment it will continue to look after us) – Restore
and Enhance Water Ecosystems, Sustainable Allocation and Equitable Access and
Regenerative Water Infrastructure strategic shifts.
Ngā ritenga
ā-pūtea
Financial implications
70. Implementing the proposed Water Strategy actions will have budgetary
implications in time. Cost scenarios have not been undertaken for the
actions as this is work that is required as the group works through the
implementation of the strategy. Most actions do not commit the council
group to a singular solution, but rather to investigate options and their
associated cost within the action, for subsequent decision making. From a cost
perspective it is expected that the actions associated with each strategic
shift will be possible through:
· providing
clear strategic direction to improve current processes (no new spend)
· redirecting
current spend to higher priority activity aligned to strategic direction
· new spend,
prioritised through council processes (i.e. Annual Budget and Long-Term
Plan/10-year Budget).
71. Over the next 30 years, the council expects to spend approximately
$85 billion on infrastructure for three waters alone (capital and operational
expenditure). There is considerable scope to align that spend to the vision of
the water strategy.
72. Where actions do require additional spend, such spend must be
considered through council’s Annual Plan and Long-term Plan/10-year
Budget processes. Additional spend would not be limited to three waters
infrastructure and services and would include all council group functions
related to water outcomes.
73. It is also noted that central government’s messaging for its
Three Waters Reform programme suggests the proposed new water entities may have
access to greater lending facilities. This would presumably impact delivery of
three waters infrastructure and services in Auckland, some of which would relate
to the proposed Water Strategy’s strategic shifts and associated actions.
Ngā raru tūpono me
ngā whakamaurutanga
Risks and mitigations
74. The recommendation requesting local board views does not present a
risk.
75. The risks and mitigations listed below relate to the Environment and
Climate Change Committee’s decision to adopt the Water Strategy.
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Risk
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Assessment
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Mitigation/Control
measures
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Insufficient
or inconsistent implementation of the strategy
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Medium risk
Poor
coordination is a key driver for the strategy and implementation must respond
to this reality.
The Strategy
needs buy-in across the council leadership and consistent political
leadership to ensure coherent implementation.
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Staff with
responsibilities for shifts and actions have been engaged in the development
of the strategy.
A Water
Strategy programme implementation coordinator will provide support to
implementation.
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Central
government reform: if established, a new three waters entity disregards
strategic intent of Water Strategy
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High risk
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The council
should use the Water Strategy to assist in articulating the long-term aims
for water in Auckland. The Strategy may also be useful to guide discussions
during any transition process.
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Ngā koringa ā-muri
Next steps
76. The Water Strategy final document and will be brought to Environment
and Climate Change Committee for consideration and adoption in March 2022.
77. A high-level implementation plan for the Water Strategy, with
action-owners, will accompany the final document.
78. The actions related to each strategic shift may require further
refinement and the core content will require editing appropriate for an
external-facing document. A workshop of the Environment and Climate Change Committee
on actions and the draft strategy will be scheduled prior to the Water Strategy
document being presented to Environment and Climate Change Committee for
adoption. Local board and Manukau Harbour Forum chairpersons will be invited to
that workshop.
Ngā tāpirihanga
Attachments
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Core Content for Auckland Water Strategy framework
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Ngā kaihaina
Signatories
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Authors
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Toby Shephard - Strategist
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Authorisers
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Louise Mason - GM Local Board Services
Glenn Boyd - Local Area Manager
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