{"id":727,"date":"2016-05-02T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/new-zealand\/press-release\/why-piss-is-the-problem-with-industrial-dairying-in-new-zealand\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T09:07:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T21:07:05","slug":"why-piss-is-the-problem-with-industrial-dairying-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/why-piss-is-the-problem-with-industrial-dairying-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Why piss is the problem with industrial dairying in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s pretty obvious that letting cows wander into waterways, collapsing stream banks and defecating in the water is not good for our rivers.<\/p>\n\n<p>But the most serious freshwater health issue facing NZ\u2019s waterways still involves cows but is much less obvious and there\u2019s no amount of fencing or streamside planting that can deal with it.<\/p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s cow urine.<\/p>\n\n<p>Cow urine is full of nitrogen. Nitrogen in small quantities can be taken up by plants and used to grow. But dairy cows urinate, a lot and in the same spot.<\/p>\n\n<p>The plants receiving this huge load of cow urine from an overstocked, intensive dairy farm can\u2019t use it all up so the nitrogen either runs off into waterways or leaches through the soil and gets into the groundwater.<\/p>\n\n<p>From the groundwater it either rears its ugly head back in rivers or sinks further down into our precious aquifers, where no plants can use it up and it begins to accumulate.<\/p>\n\n<p>In recent decades the dairy industry has been expanding and intensifying meaning there are more cows per hectare and more nitrogen rich urine being produced than there has ever been before.<\/p>\n\n<p>Excessive nutrient pollution of our waterways is called eutrophication. When too much nitrogen gets into a river or a lake it meets up with phosphorous (another by-product of intensive dairying) and together they cause algal blooms.<\/p>\n\n<p>These excessive algal blooms basically suck oxygen out of the water which destroys the ecological health of the lake or river because other freshwater flora and fauna can\u2019t breathe.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you then add to the masses of cow urine, some cow faeces, tonnes of chemical nitrogen fertiliser and unhealthy eroded soils you\u2019ve got nitrogen, pathogens and sediments ruining freshwater all over the show.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfe.govt.nz\/sites\/default\/files\/media\/Environmental%20reporting\/Lake%20water%20quality%20in%20New%20Zealand%202010%20Status%20and%20trends.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">44% of monitored lakes in New Zealand are eutrophic<\/a>. They\u2019re essentially dead. And unless we deal with nutrient pollution more of our lakes and rivers will die.<\/p>\n\n<p>Also, worryingly nitrate levels in our groundwater and aquifers where some of us get our drinking water from, are accumulating and this is posing serious human health risks.<\/p>\n\n<p>Dairy farming leaches <a href=\"https:\/\/www.landcareresearch.co.nz\/publications\/researchpubs\/Howard_williams_2013_Diffuse_pollution_and_freshwater_degradation.pdf\">four times as much nitrogen<\/a> than other pastoral agriculture. 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