How do we access the interactive map ? I need to do nitrate and heavy metal testing. Just haven't gotten around to it. Believe NZ has the highest allowance heavy metal in the oced. And it has a pretty high occurrence of bowel cancer. Potentially linking

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Figured out the map. High risk area. Kinda thought that

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The article didn't actually link the map but I grabbed it from reddit and put it in the post body. I'll link it here again if anyone is still having trouble finding it: https://maps.greenpeace.org/maps/aotearoa/know-your-nitrate/

Yes to the high bowel/colon/rectum cancers linked to high nitrate levels. I'd be interested to know if there is info available to map these cancers against this map of nitrate contamination.

Also, didn't the previous National government make more waterways swimmable by changing the thresholds for what counts as swimmable? Or was that just a proposal?

[–] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Not sure about the ability to link them. I know I'm the UK my professor was working on a zone with higher cancer linked to certain industrial areas. Government basically stepped in to say stop.

Think she eventually leaked it and there was hell to pay. Whole areas became red zones and nobody could sell their house.

Probably not as extreme here but would definitely put a damper on house prices.

I was under the impression everywhere is unsafe for swimming. Everytime it rains most of Auckland goes to red