More time for farmers, councils in govt water reforms

More time for farmers, councils in govt water reforms
Gavin Evans
Farmers and councils will get more time to implement new controls on freshwater quality, and a national bottomline on dissolved nitrogen levels will be deferred under final proposals announced by the government today. The measures are intended to immediately reduce nitrogen leaching in key ‘at-risk’ catchments while halting harmful intensification of farming and forestry in others. They still assume use of a new mandatory water module in farm management plans, but development of that will take a further year or more. Regional councils and...

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