Research activities

From integrated management to sustainable development, ESR's Water Management Group designs and implements research programmes that address environmental resource and health issues of tomorrow.

A multidisciplinary, collaborative approach underpins the FRST-funded research programme: Tools for water quality - that enables the group to design tools for the sustainable management and development of urban, surface and groundwater for human use.

Research areas include:

• Collaborative tools for water management
• Environmental virology
• Groundwater research
• Maori community development
• Policy development
• Sustainable development: the human dimension
• Waste and wastewater research
• Water microbiology research