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Article: Scheme to test trading proposed; COMMERCIAL WATER USE
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- The Press
- Article date:
- August 27, 2008
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Canterbury is being proposed as the testbed for a possible water-
trading scheme to stop the over-allocation of fresh water around New
Zealand.
The New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development has
spent two years and $300,000 researching the country's fresh-water
problems and says most major catchments will be fully allocated
within four years.
The council believes business opportunities will be stymied if
that happens and that New Zealand has only 10 years to turn things
around.
If its proposed trading scheme goes ahead, it will be open for
commercial water users, including farmers and power generation
companies.
Water is a major issue for Canterbury, which allocates 42 per ...
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