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06/10/2011 - Watermetrics wins ATS Award for Business Growth and Development ATS Suppliers were recognised for excellence at the inaugural ATS Card Supplier Awards Function held at the Ashburton Events Centre on Thursday 6th October. Water Metrics won and award for Business Growth and Development. Awards for Business Growth and Development were presented across 21 categories of business, WaterMetrics (Farm Merchandise), to Riverside Vets (Animal Feed & Health), Peter May (Canvas & Upholstery), Farmside (Communications), Agricultural Consulting Services (Consultants), Stocker Dairy Services (Contracting), ElectraServe (Electrical & Plumbing, Mt Hutt Lumber (Fencing), Speights Ale House (Food/Liquor), Mitre 10 MEGA (Hardware/Building), Cranfield Glass (Home & Garden), Southern Cross Health Care (Insurance), Jeff Marshall Motorcycles (Motorcycles, Lawnmowers etc), Office Spot (Office & Supplies), The Front Runner (Personal), Helmack Engineering (Repairs, Maintenance, Engineering & Machinery), Midlands Seed (Seed), House of Travel (Travel), Neumanns Tyres (Tyres), AutoSparks (Vehicle), and Allens Ashburton (Waste Disposal & Cleaning).

 

20/06/2011 - New face at Watermetrics

Watermetrics is an Ashburton company that specialises in water flow monitoring and helping farmers and water consent holders manage any risks in an informed way. In June they welcomed a new water meter and consent compliance specialist to the team, Anna Rhodes.

Anna joins Watermetrics at a crucial time for farmers, as new water metering regulations come into effect nationwide. She also brings considerable experience and knowledge to the team, including a degree in resource studies from Lincoln University and the experience of working on farms in New Zealand and overseas, along with her last role at Environment Canterbury (ECan).
"I joined ECan in 2007 and worked as part of the compliance team before joining the water metering team in 2009," says Anna. "This has set me up nicely — feeding into the water metering side of things and understanding resource consents and how the whole consent process works.
"In June I joined Watermetrics which has been a nice change. The work is similar to that of the water metering team at ECan but I'm working on the opposite side of the fence. At ECan I advised consent holders on the concept of water metering but now I am able to promote Watermetrics as a company and the specific products and services we can offer.
"In my new role, I will be advising farmers on water meters and soil moisture monitoring. I can also help farmers with their resource consents and advise them on what they should be doing to become compliant.
"I was still part of ECan's water metering team when the new regulations came into effect last year and in my advisory role I offered independent advice about meters and individual companies throughout Canterbury."
Originally from Hawkes Bay, Anna says that Canterbury is now very much home, and she lives on an irrigated farm with her partner. ECan has been raising awareness and helping farmers ready themselves for the new regulations through large scale advertising campaigns, pamphlets and a series of road shows around the region.
"ECan works quite closely with the irrigation industry to ensure that they are up to speed with what's happening and can then correctly advise their clients," adds Anna.
"The new regulations come in over the top of any resource consent, so both have to be looked at hand in hand. For any take above twenty litres per second the deadline is 2012 and then it's staged — so for smaller takes there's a bit more time."

The Watermetrics team, Anna, Andrew and Mike, will be able to offer the correct advice for each individual situation.