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February 02, 2024
Matauranga missing in urban water plans
Gideon Porter
Posted On February 2, 2024
Download AudioA Māori civil engineer and water expert says mātauranga could help in the design of better flood resilience for communities – but only if local and central government listens.
Tai Tokerau-based Troy Brockbank says multi-million dollar flood resilience work in low-lying areas of the Whangarei suburb of Morningside suburb might have been avoided if local Māori had been listened to.
“You know, mātauranga would tell us that perhaps we shouldn’t have built there in the first place. Perhaps we should have built more of a sponge city approach, where we were absorbing water, or trying to except it onsite and infiltrate it into the ground, and to re-use it, and all those water-sensitive design techniques,” he says.
The Government has provided an additional $4 million towards flood resilience projects in Northland.
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