{"id":40086,"date":"2021-12-25T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/25\/trauma-dislocation-pollution-why-maori-leaders-want-control-of-the-south-islands-water"},"modified":"2021-12-25T03:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T18:00:31","slug":"trauma-dislocation-pollution-why-maori-leaders-want-control-of-the-south-islands-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40086","title":{"rendered":"Trauma, dislocation, pollution: why M\u0101ori leaders want control of the South Island\u2019s water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s booming dairy industry has polluted 95% of rivers in pastoral land \u2013 now M\u0101ori are taking the government to court <\/p>\n<p>On the eve of their tribe\u2019s settlement with the crown, Gabrielle Huria and Te Maire Tau walked out on to the cracked, dry earth of T\u016btaepatu lagoon\u2019s bed.<\/p>\n<p>The lagoon\u2019s edges, once thick with flax, had been choked by imported weed, spiralling blackberry and English willow. The streams that fed it had been giving up their waters to irrigate the surrounding dairy farms and having them returned in a swill of effluent. Finally, they had run dry. On the far shoreline was the place where the tribe used to give up their dead to the mud, lowering them into its dark, hidden reaches along the waterline. Now the mud had baked to concrete, cracked and cratered like a desert. On its surface, thousands of <em>tuna<\/em>, the native eels so valued by the tribe, lay dead or dying in the sun, their smell mingling with that of the drying silt. Above them, birds were circling \u2013 so large that Tau thought for a moment he was seeing eagles. But they were only hawks, fat from so much carrion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/25\/trauma-dislocation-pollution-why-maori-leaders-want-control-of-the-south-islands-water\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s booming dairy industry has polluted 95% of rivers in pastoral land \u2013 now M\u0101ori are taking the government to court On the eve of their tribe\u2019s settlement with the crown, Gabrielle Huria and Te Maire Tau walked out on to the cracked, dry ea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2753,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,897,56,972,827,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-rivers","category-water","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40087,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40086\/revisions\/40087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}