All communities in Aotearoa New Zealand deserve clean, safe fresh water, healthy rivers & lakes.

Together, we had been making progress on strengthening freshwater policy but the current Coalition Government is taking policy back decades and making decsions that will lead to even more pollution.

If they go ahead, we will lose so much of what we love and rely on.

Our ways of life, who we are, is at stake.

The Coalition Government is planning to remove existing environmental limits designed to protect the health of people and the environment, and it plans to give more power to commercial interests removing by the prioritisation of the health of people and waterways from national policy.

This cannot stand.