{"id":8539,"date":"2019-09-05T13:32:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T04:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/05\/under-serious-threat-new-zealand-vows-to-clean-up-its-polluted-waterways"},"modified":"2019-09-05T13:32:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T04:32:02","slug":"under-serious-threat-new-zealand-vows-to-clean-up-its-polluted-waterways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8539","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Under serious threat&#8217;: New Zealand vows to clean up its polluted waterways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-thirds of country\u2019s rivers are unswimmable with cow effluent and fertiliser run-off big contributing factors<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand government has announced an ambitious plan to clean up the country\u2019s freshwater sources, after years of pollution have made the majority of lakes and rivers unswimmable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur rivers, lakes and wetlands are under serious threat after years of neglect. We can\u2019t continue to go on like we are,\u201d said environment minister David Parker, announcing the government\u2019s action plan two years into its term. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/05\/under-serious-threat-new-zealand-vows-to-clean-up-its-polluted-waterways\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-thirds of country\u2019s rivers are unswimmable with cow effluent and fertiliser run-off big contributing factorsThe New Zealand government has announced an ambitious plan to clean up the country\u2019s freshwater sources, after years of pollution have made &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","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\/8539","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\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8540,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions\/8540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}