Wetlands are some of our rarest and most at-risk ecosystems.

Hopkins talks about his defence of farmers and raises some important questions for critics

Water across the eastern part of Western Bay of Plenty has been given the all-clear

COMMENT: If we are charging for water, farmers probably should pay for it, too.

Nick Smith seems to have borrowed Trump's idea for a Mexican border wall, writes Peters.

Hearings into the regional council's controversial Lake Rotorua nutrient rules continue.

Concerns are mounting over the lack of public consultation by regional and local councils around plans to extract water for bottling

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

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.

The Government wants 9 per cent of rivers and streams kind of swimmable for much of the time 23 years from now, Forest & Bird chief

People washing their vehicles in a rare dune lake are threatening its ecological status.

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.

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

Northland swimming spots have better water quality than the picture painted by central Government, says the NRC.

The Government has moved the goalposts to achieve its aim of 90 per cent swimmable waterways faster, Whanganui's Nicola Patrick says. Water

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.