Water control by Ngāi Tahu ‘potentially disastrous’

Water control by Ngāi Tahu ‘potentially disastrous’

If its declarations are made, Ngāi Tahu’s High Court case could ripple throughout the country, Federated Farmers vice president Colin Hurst says.The farming lobby group is an intervener in the case, taken by the iwi against the Attorney-General to get recognition by the Crown of its rangatiratanga (chiefly authority) over wai māori (freshwater) within its takiwā (territory). One of the declarations sought is that the Crown re-design and implemen…