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Our partnership with Waikato Tainui

Waikato Tainui is key partner for Hamilton City Council and Waikato District Council and is therefore a key partner for IAWAI – Flowing Waters.

To reflect that partnership, Waikato Tainui has three members on the nine member IAWAI – Flowing Waters Forum. The other six representatives come from Hamilton City Council (three members) and Waikato District Council (three members).

As of July 2025, current members of the IAWAI – Flowing Waters Forum are Mayor Jacqui Church, Councillor Lisa Thomson, Councillor Eugene Patterson (Waikato District Council); Mayor Paula Southgate, Councillor Maxine van Oosten, Councillor Ewan Wilson (Hamilton City Council); Jaydene Kana (Chair), Leesa Murray, Norm Hill (Waikato Tainui).

It is the IAWAI – Flowing Waters Forum which appoints company directors.

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Te Awa of Waikato (the Waikato River)

The Waikato River has huge cultural, recreational and environmental significance to all of us. We all want a clean and healthy river.

To Waikato-Tainui, the river is a single, indivisible being. It is a tupuna which has mana and represents the mana and mauri of Waikato Tainui.

All three partners have a deep common commitment and agreement to restoring and protecting the Awa. Te Ture Whaimana o Te Awa o Waikato (the Vision and Strategy for the Waikato River) sets the vision for what we do, and how we do it and this will not change under IAWAI – Flowing Waters

Last updated 24 July 2025, 02:06 pm

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