Election policy series: The battle over our rivers

What to do about the alarming state of New Zealand's lakes and rivers has predictably dominated the environment space in the run-up to this election.

Anger over our freshwater estate has reached boiling point as report after report has shown a pattern of ongoing degradation in many parts of the country - perhaps nowhere more so than amid the plains of Canterbury - with the dairy industry taking much of the heat. See more

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