Snowflake. D**k. Greenie. Jack "Lame".
I've enjoyed seven days of insults, creative and otherwise, after I used this column last week to consider an obvious double standard in our attitudes to water.
I questioned the fairness in charging foreign water exporters for taking and bottling our water when New Zealand's agriculture sector uses 600,000 times more water than is exported from our shores every year.
I have been surprised by the number of farmers who contacted me, incorrectly mistaking their rates bills for being charged for the actual resource.
In my inbox is robust debate over the total water volumes required to produce milk (all the figures I referenced are from the Ministry for the Environment) and clearly different farmers with different pastures achieve different water-to-milk returns.