Skip to main content
Keep Our water in New Zealand

Keep Our water in New Zealand

276 signatures 224 to reach 500
R
Reverend W. signed
M
Monica C. signed
D
Diane v. signed
M
mihi b. signed
S
Serenity l. signed
M
Mackay D. signed
M
Misty R. signed
P
Patricia u. signed
H
Haami H. signed
L
Lesley J. signed
GP
Started by Greg Paling 8 years, 7 months ago
  • Has New Zealand lost the plot, I realise we are a land known for sheep, but do we as NZ citizens have to go with the flow and follow like sheep and just sit back and let it happen? I think not.

I live in Napier and the situation we and our neighbours Hastings have been putting up with is diabolical, our local councils and regional council have issued consent after consent to Chinese owned companies to take our precious water. In the past year and a half both Napier and Hastings water supplies have been so called effected by e coil, just the other day Napier residents were told we could run out of water that night causing panic and sold out drinking water at all major supermarkets.

Now when Chinese owned One Pure International who have multiple consents in the bay start taking its 50 container loads per day 7 days a week from Hastings and Up to 30,000 litres of Hawke's Bay drinking water will be bottled every hour and shipped overseas when Awatoto plant starts up in July 50 to 75 truckloads of water will leave the plant each day and travel to the Port of Napier, then onto China and other countries. We were told not to worry as all water resource consents issued only take 0.004% of our aquifer then where the hell has our water gone???

The Chinese Companies are setting up water bottling factories all over the world, this is a power move for the future but unfortunately we and many other countries are to stupid to see it.

Think about it for a minute, water is LIFE it is and will always be the most precious commodity in the world, to all the governments that are secretly scamming some cream from these dodgy free water deals, You can’t drink,grow food,water the soil with money.

Global warming effect is happening, there is less rain and when the shit does hit the fan who will be holding all the cards, you guessed it China the New most powerful country in the world.

New Zealanders we need to join as one nation to combat this before its to late, a few moaning here and there won’t cut it.

Forget challenging your local governments ban together as one strong voice all 4.6million of us and take it straight to parliament.

I would rather have our country go deeper into Debt by breaking the resource contracts than have our beautiful country bleed dry of water and be held to ransom in the future just to survive.

I will be posting this up on my personal page, please leave you names in the comments as a signature and like the post if you want to stop our water being taken.

If I receive enough signatures I’ll take it directly to parliament myself.

Remember numbers count.

Updates

Reached 250 supporters

December 16, 2017

December 16, 2017

I have been reading through the comments all morning and it is wild how many people mention the exact same frustration about the trucks at the port because it really feels like we are losing control of something so basic. My inbox is completely overflowing with stories from folks in Napier who have had enough of these water shortages and I am working on a way to organize all this information to send directly to the council so they cannot keep acting like we are not paying attention.

Reached 100 supporters

December 14, 2017

92 Comments

R
Reverend William Ingley
8 years ago Featured

The water belongs to New Zealander's. It is not for sale unless it is from overflow such as the outflow at Lake Manapouri, which is going to waste.

M
Mathew Conroy
8 years ago Featured

The citizens of a country should be the priority of the government not the wealth of the government by selling water owned by the people of the country the government are hired to govern. Profit shouldn't over take commonsense. Serve the people wisely

I
Ingrid Meulenbrugge
8 years ago Featured

I'm very concerned about what is happening with our water being exported overseas. What will happen in 10-20 years time to the land area that all this water is no longer flowing under. Surely there can't be enough for sustainability?

A
Alana
8 years ago Featured

Another country being allowed to come in and take billions of litres of fresh water is utterly disgusting and the fact the government won’t step in and stop this is more disgusting regardless of historical agreements..... stuff the agreements send them packing to drill in their own country!

A
Amy Jolly
8 years ago Featured

We shouldn't allow people to be able to take so much water in drought prone areas! And then be put on water restrictions ourselves! Very illogical!

C
Christine Murdoch
8 years ago Featured

why is it foreign companies can take our resources like our water when here in Aotearoa we get water restrictions..aah something is not adding up...water is our life line and yet the government will give consent to other countries...it's not right...I am definitely against the taking of any commodity from Aotearoa

M
Monica Clarke
8 years ago

Keep our water here

D
Diane van der Werff
8 years ago

We need to protect our water for ourselves and our future generations

Help this petition grow

Share it with friends to help reach 500 signatures.

Sign Petition

We never post to your account. Social sign-in is used only to verify your signature.

or sign with Email

Add a comment?

Your signature will be added via . Tell others why you're signing — it's optional.

By signing, you accept iPetitions Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Share Petition

Don't stop at signing, share the petition link with friends to multiply our impact

Copy link or share directly

Instagram
QR Code