The GreenplanetFM Podcast with Tim Lynch

Niki says that most New Zealanders across a whole range of political opinions think that this is a significant problem and that we actually do not have enough clean drinking water in this country. This statement is correct - in clean green NZ (hold your nose) she says there is an actual lack of good quality drinking water - and that local councils are having difficulty in providing fresh water for their communities. Plus, there is the added issue around plastic waste and these plants produce billions of plastic bottles over the lifetime of their operations. She says it is a huge issue for everyone across the country. That there is a range of issues: Councils across NZ don't have a lot of money to remedy this situation. A lot of Council water bores are from shallow groundwater. To get higher quality water you have to drill deeper and that is an extra cost. Nitrates, detrimental to health, that have dissolved in the water - cannot be filtered out. Some Councils take water closer to the surface and treat it and