Govt to end water quality bickering with national standards

Govt to end water quality bickering with national standards
By Pattrick Smellie Nov. 7 (BusinessDesk) – The government is hailing as a breakthrough national agreement among water scientists on benchmarks to dictate new bottom lines for freshwater quality across New Zealand. Environment and Agriculture Ministers Amy Adams and Nathan Guy released proposals to update the two-year-old National Policy Statement on Freshwater Management, including quantifiable benchmarks for a range of measures of freshwater health. The latest chapter in the long-running freshwater policy reform process has been cautiousl...