Environment

Huge risk from rivers and rising seas

08:26 am on 23 August 2019

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Hundreds of thousands of people, and billions of dollars of property in New Zealand, are now deemed to be at risk from rivers and rising seas. The details are contained in two reports released by NIWA and the Deep South National Science Challenge. NIWA researcher Ryan Paulik says the research shows an urgent need for one, uniform national flood risk map.