Recently, the New Zealand Government has allocated up to $60 million from the Regional Infrastructure Fund to explore the potential of a controversial and innovative alternative energy source – ...

Bay of Plenty fruit and vegetable growers don’t want to be left high and dry in a review of water use by the regional council. The Tauranga Geothermal System Management Plan will become part of a ...

You can choose from a guided walk around the geothermal pools, including the largest mud volcano in New Zealand, reaching more than 3 metres high. Rotorua was also one of the first places the ...

Rotorua's Wai Ariki Hot Springs & Spa boasts a variety of geothermal pools alongside ... cave surrounded with lush New Zealand native bush. Beyond the pools themselves, The Lost Spring boasts ...

About 9.5 million m3 per year of geothermal water is consented for extraction from the Tauranga geothermal system. Those takes are both for ‘geothermal use’ and for ‘non-geothermal use’.

Geothermal swimming pools could soon be built in the middle of the countryside, allowing swimmers to take a dip all year round. The project, called Stroud Waters, would take place on Court Farm ...