Critical infrastructure
Critical infrastructure, sometimes referred to as lifelines, includes all those key assets and services that are essential to the way we live. These include energy, communications, water and transportation.
Most businesses and communities cannot be well sustained without critical infrastructure. Electricity, telecommunications, drinking water, wastewater and stormwater systems are all essential.
Our roading network is key to our economy. It brings goods in to fill our supermarket shelves and shifts products, with milk tankers on our roads daily, as well as stock and product movements. We need our roads to get freight from and to our port and airport, and to support the tourism sector.
Our roads allow us to fulfil our responsibilities and interests, professionally and personally, and to come together as families and as a community. They give quick passage for emergency services and for us to get to hospitals and to travel.
Southland’s flood protection infrastructure reduces the impact of flooding on these assets, protecting our livelihoods and regional economy, as well as Southlanders and properties.
Flood protection infrastructure substantially reduces the impact of flooding on our critical infrastructure, properties and people. This is important for all of us, not only people who live near rivers and it’s time to acknowledge that we all benefit – socially and economically.