Auckland Water Strategy

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

Annual Progress Report 2024/2025

About this report

This report provides a progress update on the implementation of the Auckland Water Strategy, covering financial year 2024/25 (1 July 2024 – 30 June 2025). The long-term direction of the strategy will take at least thirty years to achieve. This report covers the third year of the strategy’s implementation.

The report is prepared for Auckland Council’s Policy and Planning Committee (a committee of the whole of the Governing Body), which oversees council-wide strategies; Auckland Council staff; and members of the public.

The Background section provides an overview of the:

• Auckland Water Strategy
• operating context for the third year of implementation
• engagement with mana whenua.

The Progress Summary section provides a summary of implementation progress. This includes:

• achievement of water security targets
• progress towards the long-term aims of the strategy
• progress on specific actions set out in the strategy.

Detailed progress updates for each strategic shift and associated actions are presented in Appendix 1: Detailed strategic shift and action progress.

The 2025 review of the strategy’s water consumption targets is summarised in Appendix 2: Action 5.10 water target review.

Relevant national reform during the reporting period is summarised in Appendix 3: Government water services and resource management reforms.

Auckland Council, October 2025

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