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DAVID WALKER/Stuff Thousands of people took to the streets in Christchurch in March 2019 to protest against a Canterbury water bottling plant. Anti-water bottling campaigners have lost a battle to delay paying more than $80,000 to Canterbury’s regional council and two of the country’s biggest commercial bottling companies for a failed High Court claim against them. Aotearoa Water Action (AWA) has been embroiled in a longstanding fight with Environment Canterbury (ECan) and water bottling operators Cloud Ocean Water and Rapaki Natural Resources. The two companies have permission to extract 8.8 billion litres of water each year from aquifers beneath Christchurch. ....
DAVID WALKER & SUPPLIED/STUFF A look at Christchurch s 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. ALDEN WILLIAMS/Stuff Ngāi Tūāhuriri Upoko Te Maire Tau says Canterbury’s fresh water needs to be protected for future generations, not harmed through the extraction and commodification of the resource for water bottling. ....