Te Wai Maori

1
Te Wai Maori

• Rangatiratanga and fresh Water

2
Environmental Claims

• Kaituna River - 1984
• Motunui-Waitara -1983
• Manukau 1985
• Welcome Bay Sewage, Waiau Pa Power
  Station,Mangonui Sewerage, Kakanui Sewage Scheme
  and many others

3
The Rivers

• Waitangi Tribunal inquiries
• Rangitaiki and Wheao Rivers
• Mohaka River 1992
• Whanganui River
• Settlements
• Waikato River in progress
• Whanganui River in progress
• And others

4
Water program of Action

• What are Maori aspirations in water?
• Rangatiratanga authority and control?
• Ownership what was owned was a river
• Management RMA co-management?
• National policy statements
• National standards - drinking water quality,
  small waste water discharges
• Regional policies and plans

5
Treaty settlements

• Crown stratum Crown owns the space occupied by
  water and air
• Iwi stratum Iwi own the land beneath water
• No one owns the water
• Agreement iwi by iwi through settlements?
• Iwi as sole or shared consent authority?
• Iwi having veto rights?

6
Te Wai Maori

• Provide information to iwi on how to impact on
  national policies and plans
• Provide information to iwi on how to input
  effectively into regional policies and plans
• Alerts to iwi on issues as they arise
• Provide a focus on the likely impacts on the
  indigenous freshwater fishery

7
Rangatiratanga in the fishery

• Tuna/eel fishery
• Control of the commercial eel fishery
• Iwi ownership of quota strategic purchase
• Iwi own or control the catching of eel
• Train our own eel fishers
• Control of AFL and the processors?

8
Where to from here?

• Iwi setting priorities turning from reactive to
  actively setting the agenda
• How, or whether, to fight the settlement process
  Crown stratum
• Where and how to engage with the sustainable
  water program of action
• Who can help?