This is the team who are challenging the water rights issue about bottling of water and exporting it to China. It is really important for us to put our hands in our pockets and help fund this important challenging of this environmentally crazy exercise putting water in plastic bottles, loading them … [Read more...]
Fighting water issues, Operation: Stop the Bottling
Kia ora whānau - we hope you're all doing ok! Thanks for signing our Push Pause on water bottling petition We're getting in touch again to update you on a recent triumph :) and to ask for your help one more time ... Victory at LGNZ's AGM: We had a wee victory in August when LGNZ, the body … [Read more...]
A really neat idea for us to have rainwater tanks:
A friend, who notices these things, said to me recently that we aren’t having much rain these days. She trawls through the weather forecast and her eyes light up as she reads about rain being predicted. Each time I just hope she’s wrong, as I’ll get wet on my bike. She’s almost always wrong. So’s … [Read more...]
Drinkable rivers report:
It was exciting to receive the latest report from Drinkable Rivers during the week. Drinkable Rivers group has also produced a great film "A Brief History of the Ōtākaro/Avon River" which I recommend for you to all watch. It was poignant to watch and listen to Evan Smith on the side of the river … [Read more...]
Christchurch water chlorination
Over the last year, we've had a number of articles from Garry on chlorination and one talk. On 28 August 2019, CCC's head of the Three Waters, Helen Beaumont, spoke right at the time when the city was hit with a change in the regulatory system. Subsequent articles were published in February … [Read more...]
Proposed Government reforms potentially make our water assets vulnerable to privatisation
This week water policy moved back into the middle of public debates. At least it tried to. However, the National Party did its best to grab the public policy platform; but that was about “own goals”. While the media were focused on who had the biggest “Boag-ey”, the Government made a … [Read more...]
This Weeks Speaker – Jim Bradley
Jim is a Senior Consultant- Environmental & Public Health Engineer, Stantec New Zealand. One of our regular Tuesday Group members Rod Cameron has arranged for Jim to speak Jim will be joining us on ZOOM - some of us will be at Smash Palace, and others are welcome to join us on Zoom - … [Read more...]
The canaries in the mine, a Canterbury water study:
Rex Gibson supplied this article: The Federation of Freshwater Anglers Inc. (NZFFA) has long believed that one of the major factors in the dramatic demise of the trout populations across the Canterbury Plains has been increasing nitrate levels in those streams and rivers that remained after … [Read more...]
More about water systems:
Local Body politicians in Wellington appear to be running around like chooks with their heads cut off over the state of their water infrastructure. We’ve all read about raw sewage pouring into Wellington Harbour earlier this year. Populist politicians seem to be all shrieking about the water … [Read more...]
Clean rivers petition:
I was sent this message by Marnie Prickett from Choose Clean Water: Clean healthy water is essential to our lives. In Aotearoa we are blessed with beautiful rivers, lakes, springs and streams, but as we all know the health of our waterways is under threat.1,2,3,4 During the 2017 election … [Read more...]
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