[2019] NZEnvC 208 Aratiatia Livestock Limited v Southland Regional Council [pdf, 11 MB]
...health. Secondly, while many persons within the farming sector will rightly consider themselves good environmental stewards, by defining what is meant by 'degraded' water quality with reference to the attributes of ecosystem, cultural and human health5 this should afford resource users a better more holistic understanding of those attributes and their interactions. This will facilitate the focus on the causes of degradation, which may not be the same for every waterbody, a...