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Regions such as Mid-Canterbury enjoy a direct relationship between water use and employment, says Federated Farmers.

The water tax proposal by the Labour Party “is making us all fairly blimmin’ nervous isn’t it,” says Federated Farmers president and dairy farmer Katie Milne.

Call it what you like -- water tax, royalty on water use or a water use charge -- it’s an unfair proposal, another ploy by the Government to charge its coffers at the expense of the country’s hardworking farmers.

A Horizons Regional Council (HRC) report foreshadows a grim future for the economic viability of the primary sector in the region.

Floods in April and continuing rain are costing some Bay of Plenty farmers up to $700 per cow to repair damage and buy extra feed.

Federated Farmers water spokesman Chris Allen says with the absence of detail on Labour’s new water tax policy, voters will be sailing blind into the election.

A partnership approach to dealing with river and lake water quality offers the best prospect of making sustained progress on problems often decades in the making, says the Feds.

Farmers don't condone their peers knowingly spilling effluent, says Waikato Federated Farmers president Andrew McGiven.

New Zealand, as we all know, is blessed with abundant water and we have it to ourselves.