Wairoa Dam in the Hunua Ranges on 6 April, just over half full. Auckland’s water reservoirs are half empty again – nearing record lows – but this time …
Category: NZ Irrigation
Environment Canterbury councillor blasts ‘misinformation’ driving nitrate fears
Concerns about a Mid-Canterbury irrigation scheme are the result of … Environmentalist urges Cantabrians to fight NZ’s largest pollution consent
NZ G2G Case Study
Testing alternative water sources for agricultural irrigation in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Watch video. Investigating the feasibility of using reject brine and aqua- …
We just can’t leave it to beaver!
Berl has calculated that New Zealand receives over 24 times the amount of water per person than France, for instance. This abundance might be the …
Meeting hears concerns over nitrate levels in Canterbury water
The current safe level in New Zealand, as mandated by the World Health Organisation, is 11.3mg per litre, but a 2018 Danish study found a link with the …
Editorial: Time to listen
A number of primary sector bodies made submissions, including Beef + Lamb NZ (BLNZ), DairyNZ, HortNZ and Irrigation NZ to name a few. All had a …
Meeting hears concerns over nitrate levels in Canterbury water
… epidemiologist [https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/438881/researcher-to-look-at-link-between-nitrates-in-drinking-water-and-bowel-cancer-rates.
Water scheme opponents: Canterbury Plains environment ‘ruined’ by farming
A controversial irrigation scheme renewal has left some Cantabrians … by Aotearoa Water Action (AWA), Forest & Bird, Extinction Rebellion and NZ …
Uncomfortable truth for big irrigation consent
As New Zealand moves from crisis to recovery mode the need to support local industry has been brought into sharp relief. As our journalists work to ask …
Uncomfortable truth for big irrigation consent
A huge Canterbury farm consent will likely miss water quality targets – but “science advice is not the only consideration”. David Williams reports.