Title: Polluted inheritance : New Zealand's freshwater crisis /
Authors: Joy, Mike, 1959-
Year: 2015
Subjects: Water Pollution New Zealand.; Dairy farming Environmental aspects New Zealand.; Water quality management New Zealand.; Dairy farming Environmental aspects; Water Pollution; Water quality management; New Zealand
Abstract: "Evidence presented here by ecologist Mike Joy demonstrates that intensive dairy farming has degraded our freshwater rivers, streams and lakes to such a degree that we face an environmental crisis. This perilous situation, he argues, has arisen primarily through governmental policy that prioritises short-term economic growth over long-term environmental sustainability"--Publisher information.
Contents: Human impact -- New Zealand's freshwater crisis -- How did this crisis happen? -- A fresh start? -- We are the river.