Water Quality Improvement in the Waiwiri Catchment - Research Outputs

Read the Final report – January 2023

The following publications and presentations derived from this project:

Meister, A., Gutiérrez-Ginés, M. J., Lowe, H., & Robinson, B (2023). The potential of Myrtaceae species for the phytomanagement of treated municipal wastewater. Plants, 12(15), 2844. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12152844

Gutiérrez-Ginés, M. J., Robinson, B., & Lowe, H. (2023, March 21-23). Nutrient balance in soil-plant systems after 30 years of wastewater irrigation [Accepted for presentation]. New Zealand Land Treatment Collective Conference, Blenheim.

Meister, A., Lowe, H., Gutiérrez-Ginés, M. J., Rodriguez, J., Bourke, M., & Robinson, B. (2022). Native vegetation: a new paradigm for wastewater land application systems? Water New Zealand Conference & Expo, 18-20 October 2022, Christchurch.

Meister, A. (2022). Soil-plant interactions of New Zealand native vegetation irrigated with treated municipal wastewater. [Doctoral thesis, University of Canterbury]. UC Research Repository.

Meister, A., Gutiérrez-Ginés, M. J., Gaw, S., Dickinson, N., & Robinson, B. (2021, May 4-6). Native vegetation to manage nutrients in wastewater land application schemes [Conference presentation]. New Zealand Land Treatment Collective Conference, Palmerston North.

Meister, A., Cass, S., Bohm, K., & Gutiérrez-Ginés, M. J. (2019). Native vegetation for the land treatment of municipal wastewater – an update from “The Pot”. Putting waste to work. A Centre for Integrated Biowaste Research Publication. Issue 21, Nov 2019. pp 2-3.

Horswell, J., Gutiérrez-Ginés, M. J., & Robinson, B. (2019). The Pot at Levin part of a nationwide study. Putting waste to work. A Centre for Integrated Biowaste Research Publication. Issue 20, June 2019. pp 2.

Lowe, H., Gutiérrez-Ginés, M. J., Sitz, C., Halford, S., Alderton, I., Ambrose, V., Horswell, J., Cass, S., Saidy, G., Gerrard, D., Robinson, B., & Northcott, G. (2018, December 3-6). 30 years of effluent land-application [Conference presentation]. New Zealand Society of Soil Science Conference, Napier.

Gutiérrez-Ginés, M. J. (2018). Manuka and kanuka for the land-treatment of municipal wastewater – an update. Putting waste to work. A Centre for Integrated Biowaste Research Publication. Issue 18, June 2018. pp 3.

Gutiérrez-Ginés, M. J. (2017). Manuka and kanuka for the land-treatment of municipal wastewater. Putting waste to work. A Centre for Integrated Biowaste Research Publication. Issue 16, Oct 2017. pp 6.