Sixty percent of monitored waterways you can't swim in anymore.
As quoted in a story published by Radio New Zealand in January 2016, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research figures show that more than 60 percent of rivers fail the health standard for swimming. What quantifies as a ‘swimmable’ river is also being considered by Statistics New Zealand and it's open to some degree of interpretation. One suggestion is that it could be determined through measurements in e coli, which are one of many contaminants present in our freshwater systems, and another is the increases of nitrogen leaching that have taken place in the past 20 years.
Fact or Fiction: Do the leaders know?
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