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Name: Watersmart
Address: 74 Patiki Road, Avondale, Auckland, 1026, NZ
Telephone: +64800110808

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28/10/2026

What does it take to move an industry forward?

New technology is only part of the answer. It also takes testing, technical evidence and working alongside the people responsible for designing, approving and delivering infrastructure.

That’s been central to Watersmart’s approach to water management, from finding new ways to manage stormwater to making rainwater harvesting and water reuse more practical across a range of developments and communities.

Being named a finalist in the 2026 Sustainable Business Awards’ Market Mover category recognises this work and the role Watersmart plays in helping proven alternatives gain wider acceptance.

We’ve shared more about the thinking behind our submission, the projects putting these ideas into practice and what it takes to turn innovation into meaningful change.

🔗 Read the full story: https://www.watersmart.co.nz/news/why-watersmart-was-recognised-as-a-market-movernbsp

27/10/2026

The cost of a flood often goes well beyond the damage it leaves behind.

For a business, it can mean days of disruption. For a property owner, unexpected repair costs. For a community, damaged roads, interrupted services and facilities that can no longer be used as intended.

Flood risk can be difficult to prioritise when the effects aren't immediately visible, particularly when budgets are tight and other demands compete for attention.

Understanding the risks before an event occurs gives property owners and those responsible for planning and infrastructure more time to consider their options. That might mean assessing how water moves across a site, reviewing existing drainage capacity or identifying where additional protection may be needed.

Not every risk can be eliminated, but understanding where the vulnerabilities lie is an important first step towards managing them.

At Watersmart, we work with clients to assess flood risks and identify practical ways to improve resilience. Starting that conversation early can make a real difference to the options available.

The best time to understand your flood risk is before the next heavy rainfall puts your site to the test.

26/10/2026

Join us at the Watersmart Innovation Hub for an evening of practical insights into flood protection.

On Wednesday 4th November, we’re hosting Engineering New Zealand at our Avondale hub for Flood Protection in Practice, a technical session led by Watersmart’s Flood Resilience Leader, Julian Lough.

The session will explore real-world flood protection projects in New Zealand and overseas, looking at different approaches to protecting buildings, infrastructure and communities from flooding.

From permanent and demountable barriers to automatic and temporary systems, the discussion will cover how different solutions perform, their limitations and the factors that influence which approach is right for a particular site.

For engineers and others involved in planning, designing and managing the built environment, it’s an opportunity to hear from practitioners and gain a better understanding of the considerations involved in flood protection.

📅 Wednesday 4 November, 5.30pm–7.00pm
📍 Watersmart Innovation Hub, Avondale, Auckland

Places are limited. Visit Engineering New Zealand’s event page for details and registration:

🔗 https://www.engineeringnz.org/courses-events/event/flood-protection-in-practice/

21/10/2026

When every square metre counts, where does your stormwater storage go?

On constrained sites, stormwater detention has to fit around everything else: building footprints, parking, access and landscaping. Finding room for conventional storage can add another challenge to an already complex design.

Aquacomb offers an alternative, with a modular detention system that can be integrated into concrete slabs, driveways and other hardstand areas.

Rather than treating stormwater storage as a separate element to accommodate, it can be considered as part of the wider site design, making use of areas that already serve a purpose.

The earlier these decisions are made, the more options there are to find an approach that works for the site, the building and its stormwater requirements.

Find out more about Aquacomb: https://www.watersmart.co.nz/aquacomb/

20/10/2026

Urban trees and paved surfaces don’t always go hand in hand. But with the right design, they don’t have to compete.

Klaudia will be representing Watersmart and Porous Lane at the NZ Arb Annual Conference in Rotorua, 29-31 October, talking all things permeable pavement and what it can mean for urban tree health.

Porous Lane allows rainwater to pass through the surface and into the soil below, helping provide moisture to tree roots. Its specialised installation profiles can also accommodate existing roots, reduce the need for excavation around trees and help minimise soil compaction.

There’s also promising research from Australia showing improved tree growth through passive irrigation systems incorporating Porous Lane, alongside a growing number of local applications around established trees.

For arborists working to protect trees in increasingly built-up environments, these are important considerations. The challenge is making sure tree health is part of the conversation early, when pavement, drainage and site design decisions are being made.

If you’re attending NZ Arb, come and have a chat with Klaudia about where Porous Lane might fit into your projects.

Find event details and register here: https://www.nzarbconference.co.nz

19/10/2026

Come and see water solutions working, not just described on a brochure.

Our innovation hub in Avondale, Auckland, is a working building with our stormwater, water recycling, and flood protection solutions installed and running.

It's also an events space for the industry and we're proud of the momentum building, with a growing number of architects and engineers coming through for NZIA and Engineering New Zealand events.

It's not only for scheduled events though. We can host a session tailored to your team, with the chance to see the solutions in action, share ideas, and earn CPD points. Or if a full session is more than you need, you're welcome to pop in for a look.

To book a session or arrange a visit, email [email protected]

13/10/2026

A standard concrete footpath is a bigger carbon decision than it looks. According to Life Cycle Assessment analysis, Porous Lane can cut that footprint by up to 79%, and by 44% compared with asphalt.

The numbers matter more when the performance case holds up too. On Auckland's Eastern Busway, mature magnolia roots kept lifting and cracking rigid concrete paths. The project team needed a surface that stayed safe for pedestrians without sacrificing the trees. Porous Lane moves with root growth rather than resisting it, and its permeable structure lets rainwater reach the root zone below.

It's also made with up to 60% recycled tyre material. On that one installation, 500kg of waste tyres (roughly 55 car tyres) stayed out of landfill and went into infrastructure with a design life of up to 25 years.

For specifiers, the takeaway isn't that one material replaces another everywhere. It's that lower carbon and long service life don't have to be a trade-off, and that recycled content can do real work in the pavement build-up rather than sitting on a spec sheet as a nice-to-have.

Thanks to EBOSS for featuring the Eastern Busway case study in their October low carbon design issue. Read it here 🔗 https://www.eboss.co.nz/ebossnow/watersmart-paving-the-way-for-low-carbon-infrastructure-and-a-circular-economy?

11/10/2026

Sustainability credentials are easy to claim and hard to actually earn. We've just extended our Toitū certification, and the reason it matters to us isn't the badge; it's what verifying it forces you to look at.

Toitū accreditation means independently checking resource use and climate impact across the business, not just at the headline level. For us, that runs from how rainwater harvesting systems are designed, through to what happens to materials at end of life.

It's also the same thinking behind the products themselves. Porous Lane exists partly because recycled tyre rubber needed a genuine second use, not because "sustainable" sells better on a spec sheet. Cutting operational waste matters whether or not anyone's auditing it.

None of this replaces the actual test, which is whether the water solutions we build hold up for the people and projects relying on them. But if we're asking specifiers and councils to trust the performance claims, it's fair that our own operational claims get checked the same way.

07/10/2026

Concrete and asphalt don't just reflect heat; they store it. All day, every hot day, through a dry El Niño summer especially.

The mechanism is straightforward: sealed, dark surfaces absorb solar radiation and hold it as the day goes on. Rain can't get through sealed concrete, so the soil underneath dries out, and without moisture in the ground, cities lose the natural cooling effect that comes from evapotranspiration, the process that keeps parks and tree-lined streets noticeably cooler than a car park on the same block.

El Niño makes this worse before it makes it better. Dry conditions reduce moisture for street trees and green spaces further, wilting foliage and thinning the shade cover that would otherwise offset some of that stored heat. And when the dry spell does break, it's often with the kind of intense, isolated downpour El Niño tends to produce in eastern regions, rain that a dried-out, hardened surface sheds rather than absorbs

Permeable paving works on both problems at once. Porous Lane lets water pass directly into the subgrade instead of running straight to a stormwater drain, which keeps moisture available to tree roots and helps the surface itself hold less heat, since it's not a solid heat-storing mass in the same way.

Not a fix for a hot summer on its own, but it's one of the few interventions that works on heat and stormwater at the same time, which matters when a season brings both.

🔗 Learn more: https://www.watersmart.co.nz/news/how-to-reduce-heat-island-effects-caused-by-el-nio

06/10/2026

"Dry summer coming" is the headline. It's also only half the story, and the half that gets left out is the one causing the expensive surprises.

NIWA has declared a strong El Niño, expected to peak over the 2026–27 summer, with a real chance of ranking among the strongest on record. The assumption most people are working from is that this means less water, nationwide. It doesn't. El Niño doesn't remove rain from the country, it moves it.

The north and east are drying out. The west is getting wetter, and wetter doesn't just mean more rain, it means more flood risk, driven as much by intensity as by volume.

Two very different problems, happening in the same season, a few hundred kilometres apart. A water security plan built for one region doesn't transfer to the other, and a generic "El Niño prep" checklist misses that split entirely.

The useful starting point isn't a national forecast. It's a site assessment: which risk actually applies here, where water would enter or run off this specific property, and what a realistic event looks like for this location. Preparation designed in at that stage is far cheaper than anything retrofitted after the damage is already done.

Not sure which risk applies to your site? The full regional breakdown is linked below, or get in touch and we'll help you work out what to actually prepare for.

🔗 https://www.watersmart.co.nz/news/el-nino-nz-flood-drought-risk

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