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‘Pure’ Water … Really?

Hawke’s Bay has some of the best water in the country, if not the world, but are we inadvertently polluting it through a new class of chemical run-off from our land-use, lifestyle and industrial activities – what’s been termed Emerging Organic Contaminants (EOCs)? Are EOCs a threat that we can allow to sit in the ‘too hard’ basket?