New Zealand Anger As Pristine Lakes Tapped For Bottled Water Market
by The Daily Eye Team March 28 2017, 5:22 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 24 secsA plan to extract millions of litres of water out of a Unesco world heritage site, send it by pipe to the coast and ship it to foreign markets for bottling has ignited a campaign over water resources in New Zealand. An export company is proposing to collect 800m litres a month of the “untapped” glacial waters of Lake Greaney and Lake Minim Mere, mountainous dams that are fed by rainfall on the Southern Alps.