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Watch this short documentary of a community in Canterbury struggling with drinking water contaminated with nitrates that come from intensive dairying and Ravensdown & Ballance’s synthetic nitrogen fertiliser.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n

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Sign on now to call on the New Zealand Govt to ban chemical nitrogen fertiliser.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t \n Take Action\n <\/a>\n \t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\n

If you live off rural bore water, you can still sign up for free mail-in water nitrate contamination testing here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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