plan to bottle and sell bore water
A Whanganui iwi leader says a plan to extract and sell 750,000 litres a week of groundwater from a bore near the Whanganui River is stealing and confiscation.
Consent was granted to Aquifer 182 Holding Company Ltd to take 37 million litres a year from an existing capped artesian bore on land the company owns at 182 Anzac Parade. Anzac Parade runs along the river’s east bank.
The company plans to bottle or make ice from the groundwater and sell it, including to India and North America.
Link to article: ‘Stealing’ - Iwi leader slams plan to bottle and sell bore water (1news.co.nz)
