Save Our Water Otakiri

**Please see our new fundraiser here: https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/funding-our-appeal-to-save-our-water**

With your support so far we've been busy in court fighting for our right to appeal the consent applications by Creswell (Nongfu), who wish to create an industrial scale expansion of the Otakiri Springs water bottling plant in the Whakatane district.

Please continue to support our efforts to Save Our Wai from over allocation and our environment from pollution.

Currently, Nongfu, a Chinese-owned multi-billion dollar water bottling company has successfully applied to the Bay of Plenty Regional Council (via its New Zealand owned subsidiary, Creswell Enterprises) to take 1.1 million cubic metres of ancient groundwater from the pristine Otakiri aquifer.

With your help we aim to challenge this and their other consent approvals in the environment court.

If successful, Nongfu will:

• build an almost 7ha industrial-scale bottling plant

• dump 440,000 of treated wastewater per day into local waterways, which lead to the Tarawera river

• add an average of 184 truck movements per day from Otakiri (Whakatane) to the port of Tauranga

• will blow and fill 154,000 plastic bottles per hour 24/7 every day of the year.

Bay of Plenty Regional Council reports indicate the volume, source and recharge rates for this aquifer are not accurately known and some documents point to the aquifer already being over allocated before Nongfu recieved their consent.

We are a dedicated group of volunteers but we need help. Your donation will help us pay our lawyers and employ qualified experts to provide advice at our appeal.

Every dollar makes a difference and will help give us the experts we need to fight the multi-billion dollar giants and Save Our Wai.