Actions are being taken to improve freshwater quality such as stream fencing and planting, wetland restoration and changes in farming practices.
How do we know if these actions are successful?
We have developed an interactive WebApp to help design monitoring programmes to detect improvements in rivers, lakes and groundwater.
The WebApp provides tools and resources to decide what to measure, where, when and how, and to understand how much it will cost. It is supported by open-source code and is freely available.
Our WebApp is designed to support the development of freshwater monitoring programmes to detect changes in rivers, lakes, and groundwater across Aotearoa New Zealand. The WebApp has different subpages that provide interactive tools to interrogate the results of our analysis of how different monitoring designs can help detect change in freshwater more rapidly and with more certainty.
The interactive WebApp allows users to define input parameters such as the location and effectiveness of on-land mitigation, the expected improvements in water quality, monitoring frequency and duration. The WebApp analyses the likelihood of being able to detect freshwater improvements based on input parameters with results presented in the form of interactive maps, making it easier to visualise and interpret results at a catchment scale.
See below for the new resources and research on the website
