Water resilience for Te Taitokerau

Water resilience for Te Taitokerau

Climate Adaptation Te Tai Tokerau

This overview covers Northland Regional Council's Water Resilience Fund, set up after the 2019/2020 droughts exposed how many rural communities have no public water supply to fall back on. The fund provided around $500,000 a year for hapū-led water infrastructure.

Through partnerships with community providers, it delivered tanks, pumps, filtration and rainwater collection to vulnerable communities. In 2024 this funding priority moved into the Climate Resilient Communities Fund, continuing the same work under a new name.

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Community

  • Climate Resilient Communities Fund

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    Adaptation
    Community
    Resilience

    Find out how Northland community groups can apply for climate resilience funding.

  • Food resilience (Te Kai)

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    Community
    Resilience
    Whenua Māori

    Funded food projects across Te Tai Tokerau.

Resilience

  • Tūtū te wai: water resilience for Whangaroa

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    Community
    Resilience
    Water

    See how Whangaroa communities went from trucked-in water to reliable rain tanks.

  • Kaupapa of National Significance, climate action fund

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    Collaboration
    Community
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    Innovation
    Resilience
    Sustainability

    A fund supporting climate action projects for community resilience in Aotearoa.

Adaptation

  • Community funding options for climate action

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    Collaboration
    Community

    Compare local, national and international funding options for community climate projects.

  • What is our risk?

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    Resilience
    Risk

    See a plain-English summary of NIWA's climate change projections for Northland.

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