Any commercial operation turning water into money should expect to have to pay.

Papamoa stream is stinky and slimy, locals say

Water symposium delayed again in order to include Havelock North water inquiry findings.

Wetlands are some of our rarest and most at-risk ecosystems.

Hopkins talks about his defence of farmers and raises some important questions for critics

Water across the eastern part of Western Bay of Plenty has been given the all-clear

COMMENT: If we are charging for water, farmers probably should pay for it, too.

Nick Smith seems to have borrowed Trump's idea for a Mexican border wall, writes Peters.

Hearings into the regional council's controversial Lake Rotorua nutrient rules continue.

It's the whole show in one go! Today The Country is all about water and more specifically - who owns it? On with the show: Bill

There's clean, pure fresh water, water everywhere, but somebody else is getting to drink it.

Wells up to 20m deep, mostly in the Selwyn Waihora zone, are being affected according to Environment Canterbury.

Protecting waterways for future generations was the catch cry of a Hawke's Bay rally yesterday demanding safe, clean water. At midday

Hamiltonians gather outside Waikato Regional Council as New Zealand Water Forum petition delivered to Parliament. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Contrary to claims, about 80 per cent of NZ's waterways have stable or improving water quality.

Nick Smith's myth about making waterways "swimmable" is turning out to be a bigger slice of preposterousness than even I at first

Taupō woman Alana Delich is so incensed by the new 'swimmable' water standards rules proposed that she is calling for a protest.

The Government wants 9 per cent of rivers and streams kind of swimmable for much of the time 23 years from now, Forest & Bird chief

COMMENT: Already visitors are reporting to the folks back home that Aotearoa is not all it's cracked up to be.

COMMENT: Every week we read in the paper that Greenpeace, the Greens, Fish and Game or Massey's Mike Joy are slagging farmers over water quality, writes Alan Emerson.

Horizons Regional Council's water quality beats new government guidelines.

Horizons Regional Council is ahead of the Government when it comes to cleaning up our waterways. Last week Environment Minister Nick

A herd of cows photographed cooling off in the river that supplies drinking water to Horowhenua were due to be moved away from the

COMMENT: Moral implications seem a bridge too far in decisions on management of key resource, opines Rachel Stewart.

Residents react to photographs of cows wading in the river which feeds the local water supply.

The Government's new fresh water reforms will see the erection of 56,000km of fences, enough to go around the world one and a half

Northland swimming spots have better water quality than the picture painted by central Government, says the NRC.

The Government has moved the goalposts to achieve its aim of 90 per cent swimmable waterways faster, Whanganui's Nicola Patrick says. Water

Horizons Regional Council has been working to make the region's waterways healthier for 10 years and has made a tangible difference

Discussion around the state of water quality in New Zealand is not short of an opinion or two. Yet when it comes to the science, we're