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”

Paul Bailey responds: “consents for Ruataniwha v.2 should be thrown in the bin!"

Belford: “Our community’s strategic water decisions are being delegated to non-elected faceless commissioners and outside planners”

Ihaia Hutana: “The biggest thing to me is that local people come to know what the deceptive behaviours of pakeha were like in those times”