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After six years of court action Aotearoa Water Action (AWA) is thrilled with yesterday’s decision from the Supreme Court which, once and for all, quashes water bottling consents granted to Cloud Ocean Water Ltd and Southridge Holdings Ltd. The consents, originally ...

Two companies had previously been allowed to extract billions of litres of water each year from Christchurch's aquifers using a decades-old consent granted for industrial use.

A long-running Canterbury water stoush has been settled - at least for now - with the Court of Appeal yesterday throwing out controversial water bottling consents.

A long-running legal battle to overturn consents allowing two companies to extract billions of litres of water from Christchurch aquifers has been won by a

DAVID WALKER & SUPPLIED/STUFF A look at Christchurchs Cloud Ocean Estate water bottling production plant. (Video first published in November 2018) The rūnanga with rangatiratanga (authority) over fresh water has applied to join a court battle against Environment Canterbury (ECan) allowing water bottling in Christchurch. AWA is embroiled in a longstanding battle with the regional council and two of the country’s largest water bottling operators, Cloud Ocean Water and Rapaki Natural Resources...