Selection criteria for membership of the Community Groups for
Water Management Areas
The Community Group
The Community Group needs to represent a wide range of interests in fresh water. Members of the group
should also represent the different local communities of the water management area and be a mix of ages
and genders. This will ensure a good range of perspectives are brought to the group.
The Community Group should represent the following groups, for example:
Community interests
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Māori
Urban
Rural
Recreational
Farm
Environmental groups
(e.g. Care Groups)
Local stakeholder interests
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Forestry
Horticulturalists
Youth/schools
Electricity
Tourism
Wood processing
Food gatherers
Land Trusts
Local government
Fish and Game
Department of Conservation
Forest and Bird
Taiapure (fisheries management)
The Community Group should represent the following communities/areas:
Kaituna and Maketū include:
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Maketū
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Pāpāmoa East
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Rangiuru
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Te Puke
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Ōkere Falls
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Mangorewa River Catchment
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Kaharoa
Pongakawa and Waitahanui include:
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Little Waihī
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Paengaroa
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Pukehina
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Ohinepanea
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Ōtamarākau
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Pongakawa
Rangitāiki include:
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Thornton
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Edgecumbe
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Te Teko
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Te Māhoe/Waiōhau
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Galatea
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Murupara
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Whirinaki (Minginui, Te Whaiti,
Ngāputahi)
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Rerewhakaaitu
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Rangitāiki at SH 5
Selection criteria for individual members
Members will be selected based on their presence in the respective catchment, their interest, level of
commitment and experience in freshwater management, and for their ability to:
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Explain their views clearly.
Listen to others.
Be open to multiple viewpoints and seek
options cooperatively.
Consider and actively contribute to
discussion on a range of information.
Understand, assess and balance a range of
values in their catchment area.
Consider issues from multiple viewpoints
and seek options cooperatively.
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Assess trade-offs that are required to set water
quantity and quality limits.
Commit to finding an agreed way forward and
seeking agreement with the group on its
advice to Council.
Commit to reading pre-circulated background
material and meeting agenda documentation.
Do work outside of meetings such as engaging
with community that they represent.
Commit to participate in this two-year (likely
minimum) process