Christine Rose (Greenpeace agricultural campaigner): “Rapid deintensification of the dairy industry is critical to making required changes”.

David Williams: “Everything will continue getting worse if councils don’t put money into compliance and enforcement”

WWU: We advocate for the reallocation of water consents away from intensive dairy farming, which is responsible for 20% methane emissions

Dr Tim Chambers: “biggest priority is to review land use practices”.

WWU: “we now need to address the elephant in the room, the over allocation of both ground and surface water from the Ruataniwha catchment”

Andrea Vance: “Government walked back the environmental rules …housing developments, mines, or waste landfills could be built over wetlands”