A growing public petition opposes the Ruataniwha Dam project, citing environmental risks and misuse of public funds, amid ongoing debate over water security and sustainable development in regional New Zealand.
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It's the best money the government can spend on conservation. You also want to uh restore grazing to five hundred hectares of department uh of of dock land, which is a great idea. Number three, enable technology and infrastructure. You want to provide seed funding for new water storage projects. And we just can't have enough of those.
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urgent and costly national need
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