More time for farmers, councils in govt water reforms

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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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