Council 'won't stand still' on water qualityTaranaki Regional Council chairman David MacLeod says the council won't wait for the national debate on water quality to settle down before taking further action. Its flagship freshwater project is going from strength to strength but the Taranaki Regional Council isn't resting on its laurels. TRC chairman David MacLeod said the scheme was New Zealand's largest streambank fencing and planting programme and was producing dividends for Taranaki in improving trends in water quality. The council continued to advocate strongly for national policy directions on water quality to take account of the huge investment by the community already taking place in regions like Taranaki. "The council determined that it was not going to stand still on necessary and achievable improvements to water quality and was not going to wait for the national debate over water quality to settle down."

Source: Stuff September 25, 2017 00:33 UTC