Lakes

Four popular swimming spots in Canterbury have now been declared unswimmable due to poor water quality. Logan Church reports. Video, Audio

The 2017 Marsden Medal is awarded to Carolyn Burns for her internationally renowned research into New Zealand's deep southern lakes. Audio

Over the past decade water quality and the health of our streams, lakes and rivers has become a major deal for many New Zealanders, and as the recent election campaign showed it's become a political… Audio

A project to look at the health of 380 of our lakes has been given $12 million in government funding. The study will be carried out by GNS Science and the Cawthron Institute. Environmental change… Audio

Professor David Hamilton leads the water quality group for the Lake Ecosystem Restoration New Zealand organisation and says our waterways are a mixed bag and not all are polluted. Audio

The Rural General Practice Network understands that under the government's revised standards, the water that New Zealanders can swim in will be riskier in terms of exposure to E-coli. Video, Audio

The government announced today it wants to make 90% of the country's rivers and lakes swimmably by 2040, but critics say that's meaningless. RNZ political reporter Benedict Collins reports. Audio

Forest & Bird says the new standards for New Zealand waterways allow for a five-fold increase in the chance of getting sick from swimming in rivers. Audio

The Government today announced a target of 90 per cent of New Zealand's lakes and rivers meeting swimmable water quality standards by 2040, alongside releasing new policy, regulations, information… Audio

Nine to Noon examines the growing threat of Lake snow, the didymo like algal slime invading NZ's most iconic lakes.

Dr Don Robertson is the Chair of the Guardians of Lake Wanaka & a member of the… Audio, Gallery

To understand the food webs of ponds and lakes you need to understand the personalities and lives of individual fish Audio

Australasian bitterns are one of New Zealand's most cryptic and threatened wetland birds, and the males attract females with a deep foghorn boom. Audio, Gallery

We turn now to Lake Taylor, scene of cattle in the water, in direct violation of rule 5.68 of the Canterbury Land and Water regional Plan which explicitly excludes, quote, "cattle standing in any… Video, Audio

PhD student Tanya Dann has been investigating the different speed lifestyles that two New Zealand damselfly species have Audio