Climate change and water infrastructure - shifting from discussion to action

Water infrastructure has been identified as the single most significant climate risk in Aotearoa New Zealand, according to the latest Climate Change Commission National Climate Change Risk Assessment report. In this edition of Tāwara o te Wai, Jon Reed and Hannah Edmond discuss the implications and the impact on the water sector with climate change adaptation specialist James Hughes. They ask what decisions do we, as a sector, need to make around infrastructure, urban development, drought and flood risk.