Let’s Be Clear is a Charitable Trust
Our aim is to inform and educate by providing detailed data with clear and transparent explanations creating insight into the health and wellbeing of our waterways.
Mission
Our mission is to inform, educate, and support needed change in waterway management through collaborative pathways.
We want to ensure the public and all stakeholders in waterways have equitable access to effective data-based knowledge on our waterways, the impact of current behaviours under varying climatic conditions and how modifying those behaviours will have positive waterway health benefit.
Vision
Our Vision is that all New Zealanders understand the reality of the health of our waterways, its impacts, and have an opportunity to contribute effectively to its management.
We will achieve this through providing education and insight into Aotearoa New Zealand’s waterway health using real time data displayed in intuitive ways to create understanding. This will be augmented by dynamic waterway modelling to visualise changes created by real time “events” as they occur. A public platform for collaboration across all levels of waterway management allows all to be part of the waterway health conversation.
Goals
Make real time data on New Zealand waterway health available and easy to understand on a public forum.
Raise awareness and increase public understanding of how current practices in the catchments of New Zealand waterways impact waterway and public health and wellbeing.
Ensure that all individuals and groups advocating for water quality change have pro-active access to high quality data on the likely impact of that change.
Engage with all water users to create recognition of reality and its rapid variation as biological growth drivers change.
Support voluntary change by ensuring all stakeholders understand how their current activity could be modified at minimal inconvenience for overall benefit.
Create a collaborative space to allow all stakeholders who want to contribute to do so.
Extend this real time monitoring as new water health issues indicate a need.
Our Trustees
Our trustees all have local and international expertise in their respective disciplines. Between them they are a powerful collaboration focused team with the skillsets to see the Let’s Be Clear Charitable Trust’s aims fulfilled.
Professor David Hamilton
Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University.
David’s Bio speaks for itself. He has the history, knowledge and skillsets to guide the scientific activities of Let’s Be Clear Trust. The Trust could not wish for a better Trustee.
Robert Dexter
Rob is the Director of DCM Process Control (established 1992 in Aus and 2000 in NZ). DCM has provided validated real time water quality data under contract to the water and wastewater industries for process design, investigative, process control and monitoring purposes. He has in-depth knowledge and understanding of water and wastewater treatment processes and has funded extensive water/wastewater research.
Rob is the author of the 2023 report covering the Wairakei Bridge to Hamilton section of the Waikato River which features on this website.
Astrid Modrow
Astrid believes a lot of people in our current world have lost the connection to nature and the environment. Growing our own food and having good water are basic needs we all should desire.
She has a background in the analysis of water data and provides the oversight and audit functions for LBC. Her leadership in laboratory settings as well as experience in auditing facilities globally provides a well-rounded background encompassing both operational and regulatory aspects of the industry. This kind of expertise is valuable in maintaining high standards of quality and compliance.
Natalee Taylor
As an international competitor in Rowing, Natalee understands the importance of our rivers. She is passionate about keeping our waterways free from contaminants and weeds meaning New Zealanders and international visitors can play! She is also an accomplished Patent Attorney and brings this legal rigour to LBC.