16 Dec 2025

Water Fight Part 1: Canterbury's nitrate emergency

From Morning Report, 8:15 am on 16 December 2025

A Canterbury public health researcher says the legal limit for nitrates in drinking water is too high and potentially causing pre-term births and bowel cancer. Timothy Brown reports.

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