Media Stories

January 2019

• A pathway to Water Reform - Contractor Perspectives

December 2017

• Jim Graham and Noel Roberts: Lessons From Havelock North - Hawkes Bay Today

August 2017

• Havelock North the way forward - LG Magazine
• Editorial: What lessons can we take from the gastro crisis? - Hawke's Bay Today
• Water crisis damages New Zealand's clean green image - Hawke's Bay Today
• Years of work ahead on Hawke's Bay water from gastro fallout - Hawke's Bay Today
• Experts slam chlorine debate - Hawkes Bay Today
• NZ trailing other countries in drinking water compliance - New Zealand Herald

June 2017

• Groundwater security for drinking water supply hard to measure - Hawkes Bay Today
• Napier City Council rates increase will fund water improvement s - Fuseworks Media

May 2017

• Havelock North bore complaint email 15 years before gastro outbreak - New Zealand Herald
• Malcolm Dixon: Council has still not apologised - New Zealand Herald
• Gastro victim still living the nightmare - New Zealand Herald
• Inquiry identifies multiple failures to ensure safe drinking water supply - Hawkes Bay Today
• Finger pointed at councils' 'dysfunctional' relationship over Havelock North contamination - H B Today
• Editorial: Councils failed and need to do better - Hawkes Bay Today
• Councils faulted over Havelock North gastro outbreak - Radio New Zealand
• Hastings District Council responds to inquiry findings - New Zealand Herald

March 2017

• Council agrees to $12m water bill, will consult - Hawkes Bay Today

February 2017

• Long lasting effects of gastro outbreak prompt council to consider assistance -Stuff
• Lawrence Yule - New water structure needed - NZ Herald
• Water inquiry focus on outbreak facts, adequacy of responses and contingency planning - HB Today
• More systemic approach on reporting transgressions suggested - Hawkes Bay Today
• Defective bore may have allowed contaminated groundewater into water supply - Stuff
• Troubled Havelock water bore to reopen - Dominion Post
• Relationship between Hawke's Bay Regional Council and Hastings District Council strained - Hawkes Bay Today
• Inquiry drills into Hastings council's water procedures - Hawkes Bay Today
• Gastro inquiry hears contamination may have come from nearby stream - Stuff

January 2017

• HBRC staff explain water investigation and inquiry costs - NZ Herald
• Gastro outbreak learning opportunity for medical community - NZ Herald
• Gastro outbreak costs mount up for Hawke's Bay Regional Council - NZ Herald

December 2016

• Havelock North water contamination inquiry wraps with 16 draft recommendations - Hawkes Bay Today
• Water supply inquiry chair Lyn Stevens thanks HBRC and HDC council for efforts - NZ Herald
• Gastro inquiry told HDC staff ' fearful' - Dominion Post
• Contamination cause focus after Hawkek's Bay councils prosecution dropped - NZ Herald
• Havelock North water inquiry - Council drops prosecution - RNZ
• Antagonistic council relationships hamper Havelock North water solution - Stuff
• Councils agree for good of Havelock North water inquiry - Stuff
• Hearing underway for Havelock North inquiry - Hawkes Bay Today

November 2016

• Millions needed to treat Hastings' water supply - Hawkes Bay Today
• Gastro case adjourned - Waikato Times

• GNS Science report suggests young water infiltrating Havelock North supply - RNZ
• Havelock North water inquiry delayed over legal action - Stuff
• Treatment of water a safety net for city - Manawatu Standard
• Mayor furious over water bore charges - Hawkes BayToday
• Havelock North Drinking Water Supply Update - Scoop
• Hastings DC confirms prosecution notice issued by HBRC - Voxy
• Apology to farmers needed over Havelock contamination - NZ First release
• District Council prosecution should not halt wider inquiry - Labour Party release
• Charges against Hastings DC after Havelock North gastro investigation - Stuff
• Council to consider chlorination later this month - Hawkes Bay Today

October 2016

• Catherine Delahunty - Water inquiry needs to deliver for all - Hawkes Bay Today
• Answers soon to be revealed on Havelock North water contamination - Hawkes Bay Today
• Third death linked to Havelock North gastro outbreak - Newshub
• Yule missing from first day of Havelock North contamination inquiry - Hawkes Bay Today
• H avelock North water inquiry would look at fault, but not liability - Stuff
• Government inquiry into gastro outbreak begins - Newshub
• Gastro outbreak inquiry hears 37 percent of Havelock residents affected - One News
• Gastro inquiry getting started this week - Hastings Mail
• Iain Rabbits - Three individual issues muddy waters - NZ Herald
• Call to widen Havelock North probe into water quality RNZ

September 2016

• NZ Sanitation slipping - Skegg - Otago Daily Times
• Havelock North family blames blue water on chlorine - NZ Herald
• Gastro outbreak - second case of Guillain-Barre syndrome - RNZ
• Havelock counts cost of gastro outbreak - RNZ
• Inquiry into Havelock North water contamination welcomed - NZ Herald
• Independent inquiry into Havelock North water contamination gets under way - Stuff
• Terms of Havelock North water inquiry announced - RNZ
• Report shows Havelock North had a gastro outbreak 18 years ago - Stuff
• Woman diagnosed with Guillan-Barre syndrome - RNZ
• Thousands in grants paid to Havelock North residents - RNZ
• Water woes and state of detergency - NZ Listener
• Christchurch's water contaminated 125 times in four years - Stuff
• First clear test of Pahiatua's water - Newstalk ZB
• Mayor urges resilience as Pahiatua's water contamination continues - Newstalk ZB
• Toby and Toby.. a crisis in Havelock North and New Zealand's water problem - Radio New Zealand
• Camplyobacter linked to growth shortfalls among low resource children
• One positive to come from Havelock North outbreak - kids know the value of clean water - Stuff.co.nz
• Two Council hopefuls making a stand over Havelock North water debacle - Hawkes Bay Today
• As many meetings as community needs - mayor on gastric illness - Radio New Zealand
• Havelock North people walking for clean water following gastro outbreak - The New Zealand Herald
• Havelock North water crisis expected to cost Hastings District Council $710,000 - Stuff.co.nz
• Hikoi on water contamination cirsis - Radio New Zealand
• Water woes spread to Pahiatua - The New Zealand Herald
• Pahiatua water contaminated - The New Zealand Herald
• Havelock North drinking water emergency 'not needed' - Radio New Zealand
• A waterborne outbreak of campylobacteriosis in the South Island of New Zealand due to a failure to implement a multi-barrier approach - Researchgate
• Major parties agree, waterway quality not up to standard - Newstalk ZB
• Agribusiness: Dairy will do the right thing - The New Zealand Herald
• Smith: Havelock North speculation unhelpful - Newshub
• Havelock North water scare shows need to chlorinate Tararua water - Stuff.co.nz
• Havelock North gastro meeting: 'Jinxed': Water still needs to be boiled - The New Zealand Herald

August 2016

• Gastro Outbreak: Faulty test may have let bug through - Hawkes Bay Today
• New Zealand Water scare highlights funding crisis - Australian Water Association
• Stuart Nash: Chemicals the wrong resposne - Hawkes Bay Today
• William Rolleston challenges the many claims that point the finger of blame for the Havelock North water contamination and system failure; calls for science-based evidence gathering - Federated Farmers
• New Zealand: Thousands infected by contaminated water in Havelock North - World Socialist Web Site
• More farming means higher risk of outbreaks, Greenpeace warn - Newstalk ZB
• Search for gastro source homing in on bores and nearby Mangateretere Stream - Stuff.co.nz
• Possible chlorine effects raised and rebutted - Hawkes Bay Today
• Clean drinking water must come before irrigation scheme - Scoop
• Investigation launched as Hastings council accused of withholding gastro information - Stuff.co.nz
• You've still got the resevoir of bugs living in the pipes - Radio New Zealand
• Councillor blames grazing cows for Havelock gastro outbreak - Newztalk ZB
• Massive conflict in Havelock North water inquiry, Mayor says - Radio New Zealand
• Chlorine in water here to stay for now - The New Zealand Herald
• Draft Terms of Reference for Havelock North water contamination inquiry released - beehive.govt.nz
• Charges possible over Havelock water bug - PM - Radio New Zealand
• Government announces inquiry into Havelock North water - The New Zealand Herald
• Prime Minister John Key says Havelock North inquiry will 'look into everything' - Stuff.co.nz
• Expert questions Hastings water response - NZ Health and Safety news
• Heather du Plessis- Allan: Hastings council got it so, so badly wrong - The New Zealand Herald
• How the Havelock gastro outbreak began - The New Zealand Herald
• Timeline: Havelock North's water contamination crisis - Radio New Zealand
• Public water supplies robust, South Canterbury councils say - Stuff.co.nz
• Gastro outbreak 'peaks' in Havelock North as Ministry of Health called into inquiry - Stuff.co.nz
• Gastro outbreak: Government help with water inquiry welcomed - The New Zealand Herald
• Linda Hall: Chlorine is an acquired taste - The New Zealand Herald
• John Pfahlert: Arms-length look at water needed - The New Zealand Herald
• Hastings District Council admits fault in gastro outbreak - Newstalk ZB
• Havelock North to find out today whether water safe - Radio New Zealand