Farmers are free to let their cows contaminate the waters of our lakes without any restriction.
The Ministry of Environment accepts this as completely normal. One can not exaggerate the amount of damage caused by pastures situated on the edge of a lake. Cow manure is an excellent fertilizer and it inevitably leaches into the lake after a rainfall. The situation is even more unacceptable when cows are completely free to drop their manure right into the water. Where there is pasture, there is open space.