Ruataniwha Water Storage Project

Andrew Newman, chief executive of Hawke's Bay Regional Council, is overseeing the Ruataniwha Water Storage Project; Sam Robinson, chairman of the Ruataniwha Water Storage Project Leadership Team - he's also the chairman of AgResearch and is a Central Hawke's Bay hill country farmer; and Debbie Hewitt, chair of the Ruataniwha Water Storage Project stakeholder group, which includes iwi, environmental groups and locals affected by water storage footprint. She's also a director of Horticulture NZ.