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Greens keep an eye on Rotorua water

Matthew Martin
By Matthew Martin
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21 Sep, 2011 03:00 AM2 mins to read

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Green Party co-leader Russel Norman has been keeping a close eye on Rotorua, especially in terms of water quality.

Dr Norman was in Rotorua yesterday attending the International Water Association's 15th International Conference at the Energy Events Centre.

He said Rotorua had a long way to go to get its lakes back to pristine condition.

"The Bay of Plenty Regional Council has been pretty active and the input from Waikato University's David Hamilton has made a significant difference.

"But what we're discussing is that while there is a lot of intensive management you can do, the ability to clean up the lakes without reducing diffuse pollution [from farm run-off, animal faeces, fertiliser] is quite limited.

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"If you want to clean up the lakes you have to deal with these inputs, especially from intensive agriculture."

He said that although voluntary co-operation was helpful, strong standards regarding water quality and use were needed to be in place to back it up.

Dr Norman also told The Daily Post the party would announce its national policies today and would be concentrating on three key issues - kids, rivers and jobs.

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"Getting our kids out of poverty is very important. Inequality and poverty have a lot of negative downstream costs in terms of our health system, police, courts and prisons."

He said getting the estimated 100,000 children who live in poverty in New Zealand could be helped.

"It will be expensive ... but we have to look at it as an investment.

"I think people here can understand the issue of child poverty and reducing poverty and inequality is one of our focuses."

Dr Norman said incentives for those on benefits and for low income households would be part of his party's election campaign.

He said cleaning up the nation's polluted waterways and finding "green jobs" to boost the economy would also be part of the party's policy announcement.

Dr Norman said the party was still looking for a Rotorua candidate but would rely on the party vote in the upcoming general election and referendum to continue in Parliament.

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