Photo: LDR / Chloe RanfordCanterbury authorities are offering free drinking water tests for homeowners in a bid to check for harmful levels of nitrate. Canterbury's town drinking water supply had the highest nitrate levels in the country. Unlike town supply drinking water, which was regularly tested by councils for things like nitrate levels, these bores - serving 451,403 people nationally - were the responsibility of homeowners to get tested. They invited people along to have their water tested, for a gold coin donation. Well, we might have people departing at the same rate when they realise that they might be drinking water that's not good for them."

Source: Otago Daily Times April 27, 2021 01:18 UTC