Unfair water allocation needs urgent fix - Waitangi Tribunal

Unfair water allocation needs urgent fix - Waitangi Tribunal
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By Paul McBeth Aug. 28 (BusinessDesk) - The Crown has been told to urgently rectify the first-in, first-served water allocation scheme with iwi and hapu allocations at a catchment level, as part of an overhaul of laws governing freshwater use that have consistently failed Maori.  The Waitangi Tribunal's 598-page report acknowledged the government's efforts to address the failings of the Resource Management Act - which has been found by many panels to have breached the Treaty of Waitangi - but found a significant gap remains between what t...

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