Freshwater in NZ – Auditor General unimpressed by ‘forgiving’ Regional Councils
Regional Councils are too forgiving – and our waterways are the worse for it. Kevin Parris from the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate is undertaking a report on water quality in OECD nations....
View ArticleNational – declaring war on rivers?
Green’s co-leader Russel Norman said this morning on Radio NZ National that the current government’s promise to fund irrigation infrastructure out of asset sales is akin to it making a declaration of...
View ArticleHave enough farmers cleaned up their act?
I have great respect for Jon Morgan who writes for the Dompost. His article Farmers really have cleaned up their act (Dompost 16/11/2011) begs some questioning though. Yes, I imagine most kiwis would...
View ArticleWe can do better – NZ’s Land and Water Forum releases its final report
Water is without doubt, critical to our well-being and to our posterity as a nation. Most of us might also agree that all too often, we New Zealanders do a less than brilliant job of managing such a...
View ArticleCleaner rivers – Morgan Foundation steps up
Communities all over New Zealand are working together to reverse the declining state of our waterways. That’s the good news – people care about our beaches, rivers and streams. And many of them care so...
View ArticleWater cooperation in action – LAWA tells our water story
New in 2014, a unique and powerful way for communities to gather and share information about their waterways. LAWA is the short name for Land, Air, Water, Aotearoa, a web tool designed to give the...
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