Displaying items by tag: water quality

OPINION: Normally farmer good organisations are happy to use the media to get their message across to politicians and the consumers.

Hundreds of water samples taken from Ōtūwharekai Ashburton Lakes and streams over the past year confirm that water quality remains a concern, according to Environment Canterbury.

Politicians are promising to improve water quality within five years.

Submissions are now open on a variation to the plan to improve the health of the Waikato and Waipa rivers.

MinisterEllisonRuddWatts legal experts Rachel Devine and Kathy Wilson summarise two main policy documents on freshwater management being considered by the Government.

With the increasing standards required for water used in farm dairies Singh's Engineering Services of Hamilton have developed a solution.

Dissolved iron in drinking water and reduced palatability can be a major problem, particularly for dairy farmers, who strive to get dairy cows to drink upwards of 70 litres of water per day for good production.

A new website has pop-up called waterqualitynz, which purports to provide “independent honesty in freshwater environmental reporting in NZ”.

Good management practices for water quality in Canterbury are detailed in a new document published last month.

Minimum management standards expected of Canterbury’s farmers by June 2017 are defined in a newly released booklet, albeit without a single number on associated nutrient losses.