In
New Zealand the maximum acceptable value for nitrate in
drinking water is 11.3 mg/L
Both these limits are
considered toxic for human babies less than 6 months
old.
In Canterbury the Canterbury Regional Council,
(Ecan), is responsible for managing the region’s
freshwater quality, quantity, and ecosystems through
managing land use.
Ecan has delegated this
responsibility to the Canterbury Water Management Strategy,
(CWMS), with its 10 Water Zone Committees created primarily
to oversee freshwater management for the purpose of
increasing the scale and efficiency of irrigation in the
region.
Over a Million Cows
Massive irrigation
development in Canterbury has seen dairy cow numbers rise
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Sort out the Dross spokesperson and Mataura resident Laurel Turnbull is delighted to hear an agreement has been reached to remove the ouvea premix being stored in the town s former paper mill building.
Tonnes of a hazardous substance sitting in a Mataura warehouse will be moved to the New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Limited (NZAS) site at Tiwai Point where it will be stored in containers. The news has been welcomed by Mataura resident Laurel Turnbull, who has been fighting for the removal of the ouvea premix since 2014.
Kavinda Herath/Stuff
Sort out the Dross spokesperson and Mataura resident Laurel Turnbull is delighted to hear an agreement has been reached to remove the ouvea premix being stored in the town s former paper mill building.
So, what s in our current promise, and can we meet it? Sleepy start Before Paris was born, in the 1990s, New Zealand promised to cut emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Since Kyoto is now nearing 30, you might think the difficult mahi would be well underway by now. Emissions have been hovering around 80 million tonnes a year since about 2003. That’s a high footprint per capita. Recently, the Government has improved the scaffolding around our emissions efforts. It placed a long-awaited cap on the quantity of emissions that can be traded inside the Emissions Trading Scheme, installed an independent Climate Change Commission, to map the path to carbon neutrality, and told big companies to be more transparent about the risks climate changes poses to their bottom lines.