Waikato Regional Council water quality specialists Alice Trevelyan and Dr Eloise Ryan describe some of the characteristics of water catchments.
QUESTION FOR DISCUSSION
Can you locate a stream or river near you and trace the path from its headwaters to where it discharges?
RELATED RESOURCES
Water catchments, T&L resource: https://bit.ly/4gdci3E
Mapping my local water catchment, Student activity: https://bit.ly/3VI6fL4
Rivers and Us – introduction, T&L resource: https://bit.ly/3VFoCAf
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Alice Trevelyan
Dr Eloise Ryan
Waikato Regional Council
Catchment diagram by Phil Jones, New Zealand Landcare Trust
Stream footage: Dairy NZ
Healthy Farms Healthy Rivers and Waikato Regional Council
COPYRIGHT
The University of Waikato Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato and Waikato Regional Council
This video was part of the 'Rivers and us' collaboration between the Science Learning Hub Pokapū Akoranga Pūtaiao and the WRC
