Water supply disaster at Havelock North spotlights the thin line of regulatory protection for what we value most in Canterbury quality of life too – a pure water environment. So how do we preserve clean waters and improve them where they are compromised?

Community Voice campaigns for election to Environment Canterbury now and this is why

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Call for commission to save NZ water, RadioNZ, 10 May 2016

Havelock North outbreak a drop in the bucket, RadioNZ, 17 August 2016

Lawrence Yule defends response to Havelock North outbreak, RNZ Morning Report, 18 August 2016 + Water contamination ‘could happen anywhere in NZ’

Positive E coli tests ‘not surprising’ in Christchurch untreated water supply, Stuff, 19 August 2016 + Smallest systems most at risk of waterborne campylobacter

Scientists says Regional Council misleading public over crisis, RNZ Morning Report, 24 August 2016

Editorial: Where is the Government as environmental degradation accelerates?, The Press, 20 September 2016