Online Submission Party!
7pm Weds 23 July 2025.
Want to make a submission opposing the Govt's terrible plans for freshwater but need help knocking it off?
Join us this Weds online to write and send in our submissions together.
No registration needed, just jump on this Zoom link @ 7pm on Weds.
This will be designed to help you finish your submission quickly and easily. You'll be guided through your submission, can write along with us and ask questions.
Jump online and make a stand for our rivers, lakes and future!
On our way to the South Island leg of the tour.
Choose Clean Water Tour
Over Jan & Feb of 2016, the Choose Clean Water team made 24 videos in 28 days capturing the stories of ordinary people struggling with polluted water and fearful for the future of their waterways.
The team went as far south as Waiau River in Southland and as far north as Waitangi. No region was untouched by the freshwater crisis.
Choose Clean Water droplets on parliament lawn, March 2016.
Petition
In March 2016, Choose Clean Water with amazing support particularly from Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Whakarewa i te Reo ki Tuwharetoa, handed in a 13,000-signature petition to parliament calling for a swimmable bottom line in freshwater policy and for the policy to prioritise the health of people, wildlife and the environment.
Organisations supporting Freshwater Rescue Plan.
Freshwater Rescue Plan
In 2017, Choose Clean Water helped launch the Freshwater Rescue Plan alongside environmental, recreation, public health, social justice and business organisations.