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Smart solutions: Laboratory testing 3 Waters

Smart solutions: Laboratory testing

Reassurance on the quality of water supply is just one factor behind higher demand for faster and more accurate laboratory testing services. Patricia Moore talks with four specialists driving innovative solutions for councils. Increasing public concern and legislative demands for improved environmental management and safer drinking water, are...
The dilemma of choice: waste collection services Waste Management

The dilemma of choice: waste collection services

At one stage Waimakariri District Council was offering 17,500 people a choice of 48 different permutations for their rubbish collection services. Council’s solid waste asset manager Kitty Waghorn tracks the long trail of consultation in search of a new waste collection service. She was speaking at the WasteMINZ Conference in Hamilton. In...
Dates for your Diary LG Magazine

Dates for your Diary

April 30 – May 1 Safe & Resilient Buildings Conference. Wharewaka, Wellington April 30 – May 1 Back Office Transformation. Novotel Ellerslie, Auckland April 30 – May 1 7th Annual EA/PA in the Public Sector. Wharewaka, Wellington May 2 Green Pavlova 2018. Riccarton Park, Christchurch May 9 Climate Change, Stormwater...
Plantation forestry rules: Gear up for change on May 1 Environment

Plantation forestry rules: Gear up for change on May 1

Oliver Hendrickson outlines the new national environmental standards for plantation forestry. In August last year, the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and the Ministry for the Environment launched a new nationwide set of regulations to manage plantation forestry activities. The National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry...
What next for Goshift? Technology

What next for Goshift?

Less than three years after the GoShift initiative was born, 21 councils from Western Bay of Plenty to Nelson are increasingly using common management frameworks to help process building consents faster, more accurately and in similar ways. Now, GoShift is considering next steps for its future structure and direction. Ruth Le Pla reports. In the...
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