Water campaigners have made a personal plea to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to deliver rivers safe enough to swim in, as scientists begin a new nationwide stocktake of their health risks.
At Ardern's Mt Albert electoral office this morning, members of the groups Choose Clean Water and Action Station dropped by a giant Christmas card, depicting the Prime Minister as Santa Claus and delivering a present labelled "clean, healthy rivers".
They were calling for strong water policy in 2020, after the Government announced a raft of proposed policy changes earlier this year.
"New Zealanders want to hand this important gift down to their kids and to do that we need the Government to deliver on its election promises," Choose Clean Water spokeswoman Marnie Prickett said.
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Published in the New Zealand Herald.
