In July 2019 Te Riu o Waiapu and Te Wiwi Naati cluster secured funding from One Billion Trees fund to prevent the further loss of farmland caused by erosion in the Waiapu basin. The Te Mana o Waipau project is now in its third year of planting willow and poplar poles and natives and installing fencing and floodgates. Kaiwhakahaere of Te Mana o Waiapu project Hilton Collier, to catch up about how the project is going.