“The report does not tell us anything that we don t already know KDC s non-compliance with these standards has not been because there is any evidence of water contamination.” The reason was that the council s water treatment plants did not incorporate all of the processes required by the drinking water standards and/or monitoring, and reporting did not exactly conform with the stipulated requirements, Mr Clibbery said.
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In its annual report on Drinking Water Quality 2019-2020, the health ministry says none of the six water supplies met the standard for bacterial and protozoal counts. “The frequency of sampling required depends on the number of people connected to the supply, but some of the frequencies are high even for supplies that are relatively small.”
Govt secures top Kiwi actress for $3.5m ad campaign slammed as a smear
Kiwi actress Rachel House. (Photo / Babiche Martens)
Govt secures top Kiwi actress for $3.5m ad campaign slammed as a smear Thu, 1 Jul 2021, 8:23AM
A top Kiwi actress features in a $3.5 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign which National say deliberately smears the country s local councils.
Thor: Ragnarok and Hunt for the Wilderpeople s actress Rachel House lends her voice to the Government s campaign to get people on board with its three waters proposal. Imagine Aotearoa without good water – what a stink as place that would be, she said in the ad.
Cabinet papers showed Marlborough and Tasman could be split between two water entities to align with iwi boundaries. Like most of the South Island, Seddon and Murchison were part of Ngāi Tahu’s takiwā (territory), so had been added to Entity ‘D’ with other cities in the takiwā, such as Christchurch. The rest of Marlborough and Tasman had been included in Entity ‘C’, along with Nelson, Wellington, Havelock North, Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne.
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Maps show Tasman and Marlborough could have their water assets split between two super entities. Maps suggested Marlborough and Tasman were the only councils to have their waters assets divided between two entities. The Department of Internal Affairs, which was leading the Three Waters reform, could not confirm if there were more.
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The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) started in 1948 as a partnership between the National Library of Australia, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK. The AJCP identified, described and copied records relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific held in hundreds of institutions, organisations and homes throughout the United Kingdom.
The aim of the AJCP was to copy records held in the then Public Records Office, London relating to Australia. In later years, the geographic scope of the project was extended to encompass New Zealand, the Pacific, and most of South East Asia and Antarctica.
Seddon gets its water from the Black Birch Stream.
Photo: LDR / Chloe Ranford
The water reforms could see Blenheim and Picton lumped in with the eastern and lower parts of the North Island, sharing the cost of water upgrades with the likes of Greater Wellington, Hawke s Bay and Gisborne.
Meanwhile, people in Seddon and Ward, in South Marlborough, could be splitting bills with the rest of the South Island, including Christchurch and Queenstown.
As it stands, the Three Waters shake-up could, in the long-term, leave residents in South Marlborough paying $380 more a year in water bills than those in the upper half of the region.