As I drove by a stretch of the Avon river the other day, I noticed signs nailed to the trees: Warning! Polluted Water. Please Avoid Contact.
The ducks and other life in the river don't seem to have been informed.
I'm sure I would be even more concerned if my life wasn't so divorced from my environment. If I had to use that river for washing, drinking and fishing I'm sure I would be far more sensitive to such events.
River life in Chch has had a hard time recently, what with the oil discharge into the Heathcote and now this pollution of the Avon. I wonder how I can actually help? Rivers are so hard to treat because they are a living, moving system. And all the more crucial to help for the same reason.