Te Pūrongo-ā-Tau a te Rautaki Wai ki Tāmaki Makaurau

Auckland Water Strategy Annual Progress Report 2023/2024

About this report

The Annual Progress Report provides an update on the implementation of the Auckland Water Strategy (the strategy) in its second year of implementation (1 July 2023 - 30 June 2024). It is prepared for the Governing Body (which oversees council-wide strategies), Auckland Council staff (who implement the strategy), and the public (who benefit from the strategy) to understand how the strategy has been implemented across the council’s functions and activities related to water over the last year.

1. The Background section provides an overview of the:

• Auckland Water Strategy
• operating context for the second year of implementation (2023/2024)
• engagement with mana whenua
• strategy’s alignment to other significant policy and planning programmes.

2. The Evaluating Progress section provides an overview of implementation of the Auckland Water Strategy in its second year. This includes:

• an overall summary of progress in year two (2023/2024)
• the red, amber, green (RAG) status of each action associated with each strategic shift in the strategy

Additional detail on the implementation status and risks for each action and an overview of each strategic shift is provided in the Appendix: Detailed Strategic Shift and Action Progress 2023/2024.

Auckland Council, September 2024

See also

Auckland water strategy 2022-2050

Auckland water strategy implementation plan 2022

Auckland water strategy annual report 2022/2023

List of Auckland water strategy supplementary documents:

Investigation of barriers and opportunities to further implement water sensitive design in Auckland

Mauri-enhancing infrastructure case studies

Why water infrastructure should be mauri-enhancing

Auckland Council website

Auckland Water Strategy