Effluent Issues Divide Experts
PUBLISHED: Farmers Weekly - 7 April 2016 Critics of Canterbury groundwater management are at an impasse with Federated Farmers and Irrigation New Zealand over the impact intensive livestock farming has in the region on human health. Observations by Canterbury medical officer of health Dr Alistair Humphrey that the region's elevated gastro-intestinal diseases were attributable to intensive livestock farming on coarse, stony soils have been challenged by Irrigation NZ chief executive Andrew Cur...
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