Te Wai Aroaro Awa Monitoring is a programme that researches and monitors the mouri of our awa, with a team of uri successfully implementing monthly awa and cultural kaupapa Māori and ecological monitoring in the Karioi Forest.

This work monitors the effects of the Tongariro Power Scheme on the health of our awa and assesses how well the agreed and provisional agreed flows for the Tokiāhuru, Wāhianoa, Mākahikatoa and Tomowai are meeting our aspirations as iwi.

This work has helped achieve an agreed provisional flow for the Wāhianoa, Mākāhikatoa and Tomowai and the Tokiahuru awa.

Our team are also embarking on research of the other 18 waterways on the Wāhianoa Aquaduct.

This work aims to give recognition to those awa by name rather than number, and to find out the characteristics of those awa and puna. We also investigate and find out more about the life forms within to better understand them and for us as to uri to reconnect to those awa.

The iwi has regular visits and wānanga to the awa, to reconnect and understand the kōrero for the area and the historic knowledge of our mahinga kai practices in the area.