{"id":67983,"date":"2024-11-29T11:50:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T02:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/29\/lower-hutt-city-new-zealand-odour-seaview-wastewater-treatment-plant"},"modified":"2024-11-29T11:50:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T02:50:27","slug":"living-with-the-stench-the-smelly-new-zealand-city-with-an-air-of-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67983","title":{"rendered":"Living with \u2018the stench\u2019: the smelly New Zealand city with an air of despair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The odour from a wastewater plant comes and goes, but locals say it\u2019s worsened after an equipment breakdown that authorities warn could take years to fix<\/p>\n<p>In a small city across the harbour from New Zealand\u2019s capital, an invisible villain is terrorising locals. It hovers thick and putrid, seeping through windows, tainting laundry and making people retch. \u201cThe stench\u201d, as locals call it, can be so odious, people have to dash between their car and house holding their breath, have stopped eating outside and are considering selling their homes to escape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like a long-drop [toilet] that\u2019s not well ventilated,\u201d says Anthony Coomer who lives and works in the area. \u201cIt\u2019s like the worst baby\u2019s nappy you have ever smelt \u2026 and that\u2019s what it is like in your mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/29\/lower-hutt-city-new-zealand-odour-seaview-wastewater-treatment-plant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The odour from a wastewater plant comes and goes, but locals say it\u2019s worsened after an equipment breakdown that authorities warn could take years to fixIn a small city across the harbour from New Zealand\u2019s capital, an invisible villain is terrorising &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[722,41,65,56,466,966],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-pollution","category-wellington"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67983","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67984,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67983\/revisions\/67984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}