First up, the Minister of the Environment should prohibit the shameful practice of
Cheap Deadman Gold allowing some waterways to decline in quality if that decline is balanced by improvements elsewhere. “This unders and overs practice is probably illegal and a slap in the face for the environment. It makes no sense for our “clean and green, 100 percent pureinternational brand,Mr Johnson said.
Mr Johnson said recent research of public opinion shows New Zealanders want clean water and don’t want their right to have clean, swimmable and fishable rivers taken away.“Dr Wright has made six recommendations to the Minister of the Environment in her review of the National Policy Statement on Water.
The duty now falls to the minister to say what he is going to do as a consequence,Mr Johnson said.“Having clean water is fundamental to the Kiwi brandbeing “dirty and brown and only 63% puresimply doesn’t cut it. “The environment and the economy depend on clean water and the government needs to act to ensure New Zealanders can continue to drink, swim in and gather food from their rivers and streams, he said.
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