{"id":15666,"date":"2021-02-23T13:13:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T00:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?p=15666"},"modified":"2024-07-12T12:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T00:01:51","slug":"greenpeace-calls-for-lower-nitrate-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/greenpeace-calls-for-lower-nitrate-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace calls for lower nitrate limit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/act.greenpeace.org\/page\/76511\/petition\/1\"><strong>Greenpeace has today launched a petition<\/strong><\/a> calling on the Minister of Health and the Government\u2019s new water regulating body to lower the recognised \u2018safe\u2019 limit for nitrates in drinking water to one thirteenth of its current level, from 11.3mg\/L to 0.87mg\/L.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>The call comes hot on the heels of a new report, overseen by Victoria and Otago universities, that reinforces known links between intensive dairying, nitrates and bowel cancer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>It says the health of 800,000 New Zealanders could be affected by nitrate water pollution. The report references an international study, which has shown an association between colorectal cancer and nitrates in drinking water at levels as low as 0.87mg\/L.<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace senior campaigner Steve Abel says it\u2019s time the Government faces up to the impact intensive dairying has on human health.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>\u201cWe know where this nitrate pollution is coming from: the rampant overuse of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser and the urine of too many cows,\u201d says Abel.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cSuccessive governments have been too timid to properly regulate big dairy polluters, and their inaction has not only fouled our rivers and intensified climate change but it is putting New Zealanders\u2019 health at risk.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>\u201cEveryone should be able to trust that the water from their tap is clean and safe\u2014it\u2019s a fundamental human right. How can you trust it\u2019s safe when the Government\u2019s limit for nitrates in drinking water is thirteen times higher than the level associated with an increased rate of cancer?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThe Government must lower the \u2018safe\u2019 limit for nitrates and halt nitrate pollution from intensive dairying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Last month, Greenpeace delivered a 33,000-strong petition to Parliament, calling on the Government to phase out synthetic nitrogen fertiliser.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Abel says that cutting synthetic nitrogen fertiliser, a key driver of industrial dairying, and reducing cow stocking rates are essential to reducing nitrate pollution in drinking water.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;Industrial dairy is effectively poisoning public and private water sources for profit and robbing us of something that belongs to everyone: our most fundamental resource, fresh water,\u201d says Abel.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just our drinking water at risk\u2014agriculture is New Zealand\u2019s biggest climate polluter. 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