Quote Originally Posted by iceman View Post
Labour wanted to dump us into 3 Waters with Wellington to pay for their pathetic infrastructure management. Good riddance.
You’re not wrong about the Waimea Dam. It’s a game changer for wineries (and everyone else) around the Tasman . I hope the Government will make dam building around the country, (Otago, Canterbury, Marlborough, southern Hawkes Bay, Gisborne for example) part of their fast track projects. It’s ridiculous that we as an agricultural country, go through regular droughts while we let 85% of our rain water flow out to sea.
Iceman, that's a very simplistic way to look at our rivers. Healthy rivers is an important part of the ecology and so is the flow into the sea. We already have a major issue with nitrates in our water tables & water ways.

Dairy / beef conversions of what were previous sheep farms have only been possible due to irrigation. Many of these areas aren't suitable for cows and we need to learn to work with nature not against it.