Opinion: Restoring our fragile freshwater systems
19 Apr, 2021 01:45 AM
3 minutes to read
The Country
Opinion: Waimakariri Water Zone Committee chair Michael Blackwell says we've taken too much from our environment and we must start giving back.
When I started writing this piece, I was sitting in my Kaiapoi office on a sweltering 30-degree summer's day, and I could hear faint "plops" as youngsters pulled "phat manus" and "bombs" off the bridge into the Kaiapoi River as generations before them have done.
Do they know that the river is deemed "unsuitable" for swimming with E. coli levels of up to 2420 per 100ml?