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Sink to Sea is about stream, estuary and beach water pollution in New Zealand and what is being done to clean it up. The DVD includes four detailed video case studies:

Auckland Pollution versus the Wairau Creek and estuary mangroves: the students of Hoani Wai titi secondary school explore the local mangrove estuary and investigate possible pollution sources in the adjacent industrial estate. The local Council water quality inspector assists with the analysis of contaminants.
Timber treatment versus the Waipa stream and Lake Rotorua: the causes and effects of PCP contamination on Lake Rotorua are explored through the eyes of: a timber factory manager, an ex-factory worker, a Maori elder living in a tourist village downstream, and a Greenpeace activist.
Making paper versus the Tarawera River and Pacific Ocean: a Greenpeace worker describes how the Tarawera River and dependent ecologies are affected by the operation of the Tasman Pulp and Paper Mill's use of fresh river water as an input to the factory.
Oamaru pollution versus the foreshore and the Pacific Ocean: An Oamaru environmentalist tells the story of their new sewerage scheme, how it will stop outfall pipes and improve the lot of Blue Penguins which breed along the Oamaru foreshore. The notes consider the Hamilton City Council waste water scheme.

Made by Team Video Pacific with assistance from Greenpeace New Zealand and the New Zealand Lotteries Commission. Available on free approval.

Estuary water testing

Checking mangrove health

Counting crab holes

Pollution on Oamaru beach

Dead Little Blue penguin

Meat works discharge at Oamaru

Maori elder talks about river health

Old timber treatment works

Protective gloves for treatment workers

Paper factory at Kawarau

Sign on Tarawera River

River water blackened by factory discharge

This documentary resource on DVD reveals the conflicting attitudes to resource management in different areas of New Zealand. Through the voices and opinions of local people, the idea that different values can be held about the same resource by different community groups is explored. Ways of resolving different expectations are explored. The common theme across all five case studies is mining and its affect on people and the local economy and environment.

Queenstown: white water rafting on the Shotover River is a major tourist attraction. It also keeps many locals employed. But the industry is at risk because a gold dredge operating under license is threatening to take out the rapids in search of gold.
Barrytown: the Barrytown Flats are just down the road from Punakaikai with its famed Pancake rocks. The tourist industry is booming but is threatened by an Australian mining company which is seeking licenses to strip mine the Flats for Ilmenite.
Waihi: The huge Martha Hill opencast goldmine is right in the middle of Waihi township. Here are jobs for locals but there are problems with noise and dust, the risk of subsidence, and a tailings dam is being built.
Waitekauri: environmentalists are keen to protect the Kokako, native frogs and bush walks which run throughout the native bush. But overseas gold mining companies want to spread their chemical gold extraction operations deep onto the native bush areas. Their gold mining methods produce toxic tailings ponds which have leaked into rivers in the past.
Muriwai: this case study explores the confrontation which developed between the Ngati Whaatua tribe and the Crown when the Crown attempted to sell Maori land, and grant prospecting licenses for Ilmenite without consultation. It includes indepth interviews with Maori elders on their marae. Enables discussion about Maori attitudes to land.

Produced by Team Video Pacific, with Coromandel Peninsula Watchdog and N.Z. Arts Council assistance.
Available on free approval.