Conversation

Meanwhile, in Christchurch New Zealand: a foreign-owned company is trying to bottle and export up to 1.6 billion litres per year of our fresh water, at the same time as our city council says they'll have to start chlorinating because our public city wells aren't up to scratch.

(The govt agency that grants water consents overrode our local votes around 2010, at the whim of right-wing neoliberals).

The water privatisation wars. They're happening.

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/03/chinese-company-drills-water-bore-in-christchurch-despite-council-warning.html

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/102184