Keeping Our Streams, Rivers & Lakes Clean
“After nearly 20 years of division and inaction” New Zealand has a shared vision for further action that will be needed to improve the quality of natural waters (Dominion Post, May 23, 2017).
My concern about the deterioration of our waterways goes back further, to when I first started working as a professional natural areas conservationist in 1982.
Others who had the foresight at that time had no effect in terms of their ability to arouse public interest or community action, as was I. Water health kept on deteriorating.
In my opinion, New Zealand’s proposed National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management comes far too late to restore what we had back then, or even twenty years ago.
If only more people had passionately cared soon enough!
My concern about the deterioration of our waterways goes back further, to when I first started working as a professional natural areas conservationist in 1982.
Others who had the foresight at that time had no effect in terms of their ability to arouse public interest or community action, as was I. Water health kept on deteriorating.
In my opinion, New Zealand’s proposed National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management comes far too late to restore what we had back then, or even twenty years ago.
If only more people had passionately cared soon enough!
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