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Water pollution is top of the list as the Government prepares its environment report for the Rio summit in August.
Next time you turn on the tap, think about New Zealand's top environment problem - water.
The Government is preparing New Zealand's state-of-the- environment report for the Rio+10 Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August. Water is at the top of the Ministry for the Environment's list of priorities.
Former Environment Ministry water policy analyst Eric Pyle said he believed New Zealand's water quality was worsening. This was a turnaround from the 1980s when factories were reducing discharges into rivers and cities were building sewage...