Posted on 29-5-2002
MOTORCADE
AND CONVERGENCE AT TUAKAU!
AUCKLAND DOES NOT
WANT WAIKATO WATER!
Meet at
the Khyber Pass Reservoir cnr Mt Eden Rd, Symonds
Street
9.30am
Queens Birthday
Mon 3rd June
The motorcade will convoy to Tuakau.
We will be welcomed by local Iwi at noon.
Together we will March on the Tuakau pumping station.
Decorate your car. "No to Waikato Water" bring your BBQ and
Kids.
IF YOU ARE
SICK OF YOUR COUNCIL'S COMMERCIAL AGENDA'S AND WANT TO AVERT
AN
ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER.
UNITE IN THIS ACTION!
NUMBERS DO COUNT,
DON'T LEAVE IT TO OTHERS.
8469825 or CAP 8366389 for info.
See attachment 1 and 2, please photocopy and distribute flyer.
IT'S NOT TO LATE TO STOP THIS OUTRAGE!
Progressive Councillors
throughout the Region have committed to table motions to their
respective
Councils directing Watercare to operate a best water first policy
(using
Waikato water only in emergencies). Do we want Waikato water
at all? Why
can't industry use it?
A huge show of public protest will make the difference, so join
the
Motorcade on June 3rd.
Watercare sold the idea of the pipeline as an emergency source,
and then acted by
stealth to make it a primary one. The preferred option of some
Councils
and the vast majority of the public was to build more reservoirs.
This was ignored.
Watercare is a commercial company (LATE). It exists beyond the
democratic control
of our Councils. The only reason they chose the Waikato Pipeline
was to
boost their asset balance sheets.
There is a Regional agenda to commercialise and franchise (privatise)
our water
services. This type of capital investment makes the service
more
attractive to multi-national water companies.
The quality of the water and the fact that the Waikato source
will cost three times the amount of
reservoir water doesn't worry Watercare. After all, the rich
can afford
bottled water and ordinary people can foot the bill through
increased
user- pays charges.
It is lunacy to choose a contaminated source of water over the
safest
alternative.
New Zealand Herald reported that treated Waikato water will
still contain
arsenic, boron, and nitrates. This is below NZ drinking water
guidelines.
This exposes Watercares claims about their high tech filtration
system as
being at best highly dubious and at worst false.
NZ drinking water standards are silent on the thousands of other
chemicals
that are inevitably in the Waikato, downstream of Hamiltons
sewer
outfall, the polluted Waipa river tributary, farms, factories
and various
landfills. Do you want to drink Waikato water?
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