If you follow the link below, you'll quickly see what kind of issues even a tiny little island like New Zealand is facing. Agriculture gets more open doors than even the oil & gas industry of the early days in Alberta did. Ag, combined with power generation (dams) are well on their way to changing the face of New Zealand. We're sold on it being a green country, but under the bed sheets it isn't too different from here. Given that the recently elected national government just recently dismantled the water councils and replaced them with pro-industry overseers, it could be some time before that worm turns. This is a link to a forum post showing a series of photos of irrigation 'withdrawals'. We witnessed countless such examples of dry riverbeds due to withdrawals on each of our trips, many waters simply no longer reach the ocean.
http://www.flyshop.co.nz/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=5;t=2953
Sunday, February 14, 2016
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