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Why we should release New Zealand’s strangled rivers to lessen the impact of future floods

Gary John Brierley, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; Dan C H Hikuroa, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; Heide Friedrich, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; Ian Christopher Fuller, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University; James Brasington, University of Canterbury; Jo Hoyle, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA); Jon Tunnicliffe, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; Kristiann Allen, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau, and Richard Measures, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

Given climate change predictions of more extreme floods in New Zealand, it’s time to change management practices to work with a river, allowing it room to move and its channels to adjust.

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