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Listen: James Shaw - who owns our water?
We ask the Green Party co-leader who owns the water and who should be paying for it plus we ask him about John Key's legacy.
We ask the Green Party co-leader who owns the water and who should be paying for it plus we ask him about John Key's legacy.
It's the whole show in one go! Today The Country is all about water and more specifically - who owns it? On with the show: Bill
There's clean, pure fresh water, water everywhere, but somebody else is getting to drink it.
Wells up to 20m deep, mostly in the Selwyn Waihora zone, are being affected according to Environment Canterbury.
Protecting waterways for future generations was the catch cry of a Hawke's Bay rally yesterday demanding safe, clean water. At midday
Hamiltonians gather outside Waikato Regional Council as New Zealand Water Forum petition delivered to Parliament. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Contrary to claims, about 80 per cent of NZ's waterways have stable or improving water quality.
Nick Smith's myth about making waterways "swimmable" is turning out to be a bigger slice of preposterousness than even I at first
Taupō woman Alana Delich is so incensed by the new 'swimmable' water standards rules proposed that she is calling for a protest.
Forest and Bird says most rivers and streams are excluded from Government's plan to clean up waterways.
COMMENT: Already visitors are reporting to the folks back home that Aotearoa is not all it's cracked up to be.
COMMENT: Every week we read in the paper that Greenpeace, the Greens, Fish and Game or Massey's Mike Joy are slagging farmers over water quality, writes Alan Emerson.
Horizons Regional Council's water quality beats new government guidelines.
Horizons Regional Council is ahead of the Government when it comes to cleaning up our waterways. Last week Environment Minister Nick
A herd of cows photographed cooling off in the river that supplies drinking water to Horowhenua were due to be moved away from the
COMMENT: Moral implications seem a bridge too far in decisions on management of key resource, opines Rachel Stewart.
Residents react to photographs of cows wading in the river which feeds the local water supply.
The Government's new fresh water reforms will see the erection of 56,000km of fences, enough to go around the world one and a half
Horizons Regional Council has been working to make the region's waterways healthier for 10 years and has made a tangible difference
Discussion around the state of water quality in New Zealand is not short of an opinion or two. Yet when it comes to the science, we're
Some say the Government's water-quality proposals are not ambitious enough, but others - including farmers - are cautiously optimistic.
In "clean, green New Zealand" just 72 per cent of rivers, streams and lakes are considered safe for swimming and it will remain that way for a while.
Media representation of the Government's recent waterways plan has one very important voice missing...New Zealand's farmers, says Craig Wiggins.
Two days in the Environment Court last week could set some national precedents in the way intensive farming is regulated to protect
A Te Arawa hapu is threatening legal action to gain control of the western shores of Lake Rotorua.
The Bay people and their environment have been through so much in the past few years, from Wairoa down to Waipawa. The disastrous
Given the right tools and guidance, monitoring of streams and rivers by 'citizen scientists' can produce reliable data and other useful
Dr Tim Mackle is pleased with the report and says the Government is heading in the same direction as DairyNZ.
COMMENT: The Government's plan to clean up waterways is an attempt to look as though action's being taken, when in reality nothing's happening, says Mark Dye.
Environment groups are upset that rivers deemed to be "excellent for swimming" under new water quality standards could still make