Beach Water Quality Monitoring

Absolutely, there has been contributing factors about what's the quality of stormwater discharges into the environment, how many of them have got consents. Some of it will absolutely be around water, wastewater overflows and discharges or the amount of drinking water that we abstract from the environment. All of those are going to be contributing factors and we absolutely need to do the investment that's there. We need to also think about not just about fixing the pipe but making sure that we're thinking about the nature-based solutions. What are we going to do? What are the wetlands that need to be put in place? What are some of the green roofs? What are the, you know, in some parts of the country we need to make sure that we're improving our water efficiency, you know, making sure we're providing signals around to mum and dad around how much water are we consuming. within our houses because you know as you know right we've talked previously about the fact that you've got a meter in Auckland and I don't have a meter in Wellington and so all of those things are an important part just as you know what what we flush down the toilet making sure it's the three p's pee poo and paper only and that when you know we don't flush the medicines I mean that's one of the things that comes across here is that you can see um that you know pharmaceuticals do not get removed at the wastewater treatment plant they just go through and so you know if you've got old medicines that you're thinking that you need to get rid of please don't put them down the toilet just put them in the rubbish bin