B-6 – Area 6 – Assessment of Environmental Effects 101 Accordingly, water bodies associated with the development, operation and use of Area 6 will be managed to ensure the outcomes sought by Objective 3.1.2 and the associated policies is achieved (noting tangata whenua matters are addressed in Section 5 of the Overarching AEE). 7.6.1.3 Water Takes Objective 3.3.2 relates to the management of water allocation. The outcomes sought by this objective include ensuring: water availability meets the needs of existing and the reasonably justified and foreseeable future domestic or municipal supply requirements and animal drinking water requirements;103 the efficient allocation and the efficient use of water;104 sufficient water is retained instream to safeguard the life supporting capacity of freshwater;105 that decisions regarding the allocation and use of water take account of the need to avoid the further degradation of water quality, having regard to the contaminant assimilative capacity of water bodies;106 and the availability of water to meet other future social, economic and cultural needs of individuals and communities.107 For the reasons set out above in respect of Policy 8.6 of the RPS, the activities within Area 6 are consistent with the above outcomes around water allocation and use.108 Policy 12 applies when assessing any resource consent application for groundwater takes and any associated water use. It sets out matters that are to be given particular regard. They are not absolute requirements or standards in their own right. The relevant matters include: the effect of the activity on the relationship of tangata whenua with their ancestral lands and waters;109 the need for the volume and rate of water sought;110 103 Objective 3.3.2(b), Section 3.3, Waikato Regional Plan. 104 Objective 3.3.2(d), Section 3.3, Waikato Regional Plan. 105 Objective 3.3.2(h), Section 3.3, Waikato Regional Plan. 106 Objective 3.3.2(i), Section 3.3, Waikato Regional Plan. 107 Objective 3.3.2(j), Section 3.3, Waikato Regional Plan. 108 Objective 3.3.2(b) to (d), (h) and (i), Waikato Regional Policy Statement. 109 Policy 12(b), Section 3.3, Waikato Regional Plan. 110 Policy 12(c), Section 3.3, Waikato Regional Plan.
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