If you’re considering either vacationing or emigrating to New Zealand spare a thought first for the people who have to live there, and the impact it will have on them. New Zealand’s fragile infrastructure (resident pop. only 4.4 million) is under pressure from the effect a modest 9 % rise in tourism numbers this year…
New Zealand’s ‘100% pure’ mantle has cracked again with the publication of a report (allegedly ‘buried since June’) that one in five people in New Zealand has unsafe or unregistered drinking water that has not been classified. The report, which is bound to promote further ‘NZ is third world‘ criticism, was released by the Ministry…
A couple of days back we blogged about the disgusting increase in pollution levels in New Zealand’s bathing waters and of how some waters are being billed as ‘safe for swimming’ when they are so obviously polluted with storm or waste water. Now it seems that contamination in Waitara may be making those most hardy…
Way back in 2008 this blog highlighted the appalling state of some of New Zealand’s most popular bathing waters in “A Third of All Popular Swimming Places Unsafe.”- “In stark contrast to New Zealand’s ’100% Pure’ image a survey of local authority records by Consumer NZ has revealed that 29% of the most popular beaches…
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