How clean is New Zealand ? A look at water pollution.

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How clean is New Zealand ? A look at water pollution.

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What is the problem with New Zealand's water sources?

A look at how water pollution has become a major concern for the country

Pristine waters and untouched islands are synonymous with New Zealand, drawing international and domestic travellers by the millions, annually.

According to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, tourism is one of New Zealand's largest sources of revenue, with a direct GDP contribution of $12.9bn (or 5.6 percent). It is also responsible for 7.5 percent of total employment in New Zealand (in the year ending March 2016).

Dairy and agriculture are also major contributors to New Zealand's GDP, and there has been significant growth in both industries. Dairy is also New Zealand's largest export goods sector, accounting for more than one in four goods export dollars coming into New Zealand.

But as the dairy and agriculture industries grow, they are placing an ever-greater strain on the country's water supply and raising concerns about the quality of New Zealand's water...
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/featur ... 04101.html
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The clean, green image NZ portrays is merely a gimmick created to make Kiwis feel special and to reel in the tourists. BTW, the infrastructure there is struggling to cope with the tourist burden.

As far as water goes, the dairy industry has nigh on destroyed the rivers with super-phosphate run-off, and pest control takes on a new meaning.

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Clean, green New Zealand is a lie – and a warning for Britain’s countryside
4 December 2017
There can’t be a more successful tourism marketing campaign than “100% Pure New Zealand”. And New Zealand is seen as a world leader in another respect: how its farmers sell their food globally without government subsidies. But the tension between these two successes has been exposed by Sir Tim Smit, the co-founder of the Eden Project in Cornwall.

Smit has sparked a minor international incident by declaring that New Zealand is “so pure the people of Christchurch won’t even swim in the river Avon. Most of the lakes are full of algae. It is like a beautiful person with cancer.” He was speaking to British landowners pondering the New Zealand model for post-Brexit agriculture. British farmers currently receive £3bn in subsidies each year; environment secretary Michael Gove must design a much smaller subsidy system – or scrap it altogether.

Smit argues that New Zealand is no inspiration despite its farmers surviving the removal of subsidies in 1984. Their response has been to intensify, and export milk to China.

Landscapes that George Monbiot might describe as sheep-wrecked are now cattle-wrecked; the cost, argues Smit, is water quality, as nitrates from fertilisers flood into rivers. Smit’s critique has been endorsed not only by Greenpeace New Zealand but also by the chief executive of New Zealand’s fish and game council, Martin Taylor, who calls the country’s clean, green image “a facade”...
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Yep, they've fucked it!
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In a New Zealand estuary, I closed my eyes and floated. It turned out the water was toxic
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Ingrid Horrocks learned to swim in the wild – but no river or lake where she grew up is ‘swimmable’ any more
Mon 12 Jul 2021 18.30 BST

For most of those of us who swim, swimming is not something we think about: it is something we do.

I learned to swim in the sea, as some of us did in Aotearoa New Zealand in the early 1980s, walking down to the beach with my Auckland primary school. One of my earliest memories is of graduating to the “heads under” group and of sucking salt from my hair.

Later, my family’s regular summer spot was a swimming hole in the river running through our Wairarapa farm, where occasionally I persuaded our old farm horse to swim with me. These days I swim with my own children. We go most often to the beautiful, bracingly chilly sea off the south coast of Wellington, where the summer water temperature sits around 16C.

But over recent years, as a result of a number of reports on the state of our waters, the word “swimmable” has entered our collective vocabulary. Our waters have been damaged by a long history of land conversion for cities and agriculture, and now by run-off and reduced water flow from newly intensive farming practices and more frequent droughts. Which of our rivers and lakes are still swimmable? How many of our beaches? How many are not?

Full article: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/ ... -was-toxic
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I grew up fishing and swimming in rivers and lakes. It's probably not true everywhere but where I was in NZ you'd drink the water without a second thought and the idea of getting sick just from swimming would have been ridiculous.

I've been trout fishing a few times since I came back. The river was full of algae - what people here call rock snot - and there are warnings about walking your dog near some bodies of water because some of the algae is poisonous and will kill your dog if it ingests some. I went swimming because it was hot and to me that's part of the fun of fishing, you take a break to jump in the water when you get hot but now you're worried about submerging your head in case you get some sort of infection or a dose of the shits.

I suppose NZ is still clean and green compared to a lot of places, rivers generally aren't choked with plastic and as far as I know factories aren't dumping their toxic waste directly into the rivers, if you're a tourist looking for some nice scenery and backdrops for selfies you'll find that easily enough, just don't expect to be able to drink straight from the rivers.
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