Thank you to everyone who helped make our Water New Zealand Conference and Expo 2024 such a huge success.
It was yet another record-breaker – with 1700 delegates, presenters and exhibitors and more than 900 joining us at the Downer Gala Dinner celebrating the incredible work and achievements across the water industry.
I hope everyone left our conference feeling energised with new contacts and friends, fresh ideas and inspiration.
With more than a hundred keynote, thought leadership and technical presentations along with workshops, the pre-conference Enabling Local Water to be Done Well symposium, the Innovation Forum and some fascinating expo stands, there was truly plenty for everyone.
Of course, we could not have done this without the generous support of so many in our industry and I thank our technical committee for again pulling together such a relevant and highly professional technical programme.
We appreciate the ongoing support of our Premier Partners – Brian Perry Civil, Citycare Water, Hynds, Veolia, Fulton Hogan Water and Watercare along with our Regulatory Partner Taumata Arowai.
Thanks also to our Conference Sponsors – Intergroup, Lutra, Applied Instruments, Aurecon, Downer, Gentrack, and Neura.
Also our Award Sponsors – Site Safe, Pipeline & Civil, Trility, Beca, Morphum Environmental, MottMacDonald, Hynds, IXOM, Citycare Water and Tonkin + Taylor.
Ngā mihi nui,
Gillian Blythe
Chief Executive, Water New Zealand
Toitū Net Carbonzero Event Operations Certification
Water New Zealand is proud to be working towards Toitū Net Carbon Zero – Event Operations certification for the Water New Zealand Conference & Expo 2024.
The Conference is all about creating sustainable outcomes, but at the same time we acknowledge that such events have environmental impacts. Therefore, we have taken steps to improve the sustainability of our events.
This year we will be measuring emissions from delegate, presenter and organisational travel, vehicle use, electricity and waste, to purchase carbon credits to this value. The certified carbon credits we are purchasing will be used in three ways – to store, avoid and reduce emissions.
Store: These are usually forestry projects – land specifically set aside for reforestation with strict covenants to ensure the forest remains permanent and is not harvested.
Avoid: These are usually energy generation projects that use renewable energy instead of fossil-fuels, such as wind farms.
Reduce: These are usually a form of technology that reduces the usual amount of emissions produced, for example efficient solar cook stoves that replace inefficient fossil-fuel burning stoves.
You can find out more about the projects funded by these carbon credits by clicking here.
We appreciate your support of this initiative and the future of Aotearoa.
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