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New Zealanders in their thousands are calling on the Hawke\u2019s Bay Regional Council (HBRC) to scrap the Ruataniwha Dam, in the wake of the gastro outbreak.<\/p>\n

The waterborne illness that\u2019s gripped Havelock North over the last two weeks has sparked nationwide concern over industrial agriculture and its impact on New Zealand\u2019s waterways.<\/p>\n

Now people from around the country are demanding HBRC ditch its dam plan, in order to prevent more pressure on waterways. Nearly 4,000 people so far have emailed<\/a> regional councillors, urging them not to allow the dam to proceed.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are putting two and two together, and realising that big irrigation schemes like Ruataniwha increase the risk of Havelock North-type outbreaks, because one of the main purposes of the schemes is to enable more industrial dairying,” said Greenpeace Agriculture Spokesperson Genevieve Toop.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Zealanders also recognise that if Ruataniwha gets the go ahead, it will be seen as a green light for other big irrigation schemes around the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIrrigation schemes enable more industrial dairy farming, and more industrial dairy farming contaminates our waterways. We can’t have a repeat of what’s happened in the last two weeks in Havelock North. People\u2019s health and the health of our rivers must come before industrial dairying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the risks of big irrigation, the Government is throwing over half a billion taxpayer dollars at it, not just in the Hawke\u2019s Bay but across the country, and local councils are pouring in millions of dollars of ratepayers\u2019 money.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat public money should instead be going into better, more ecological farming practices,\u201d said Ms Toop.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should be cleaning up and protecting our rivers and water supplies, not building giant irrigation schemes that will further pollute them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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