Bottling company took 10 million litres of water illegally before being caughtALDEN WILLIAMS/STUFF A water bottling plant in Christchurch on the former home the Kaputone Wool Scour has been rapped over the knuckles for both breaching a resource consent and health and safety failings. A controversial water bottling operation illegally pumped more than 10 million litres* of water from an aquifer beneath Christchurch against the rules of its resource consent, it has emerged. Cloud Ocean Water Cloud Ocean Water is currently testing the production line at its Belfast bottling plant. Cloud Ocean Water has not yet started bottling water for sale and no water from the site has been exported, a spokeswoman said. * An earlier version of this story said Ocean Cloud Water had taken one million litres.

Source: Stuff September 07, 2018 07:30 UTC