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SELWYN TIMES Tuesday <strong>October</strong> <strong>25</strong> <strong>2016</strong> 11<br />
News<br />
ON THE DOMAIN<br />
MARCH 4 2017 LINCOLN<br />
Four-day walk brings<br />
water quality of <strong>Selwyn</strong> River into spotlight<br />
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• By Tom Doudney<br />
A FOUR-DAY walk along the<br />
<strong>Selwyn</strong>/Waikirikiri River which<br />
took place last month to raise<br />
awareness of water quality issues<br />
has been turned into a short<br />
documentary.<br />
And that documentary may<br />
become part of a longer film<br />
documenting a series of similar<br />
walks planned for other Canterbury<br />
rivers next year.<br />
Gaylene Barnes’ 15min film is<br />
currently part of the Waterlife<br />
exhibition at Lincoln’s Down by<br />
the Liffey Gallery. The exhibition<br />
features work by artists and<br />
scientists, several of who were<br />
involved in the Walk For Water,<br />
on the theme of water quality.<br />
Ms Barnes said she had been<br />
invited to film the walk by its<br />
organisers.<br />
“When I went to the<br />
<strong>Selwyn</strong> River and filmed it, I was<br />
shocked,” she said.<br />
“I had been up to the top of the<br />
<strong>Selwyn</strong> River two or three years<br />
ago, had a nice picnic there, wandered<br />
in the water – I wouldn’t<br />
do that today, it’s a mess.”<br />
Ms Barnes and fellow film<br />
LONG HAUL: Participants in the Walk For Water traversing the <strong>Selwyn</strong>/Waikirikiri River to raise<br />
awareness of water quality issues last month. <br />
maker Kathleen Gallagher<br />
are planning to film a hikoi in<br />
March and April, jointly organised<br />
by a number of community<br />
groups, which will involve people<br />
walking along the course of<br />
several Canterbury rivers including<br />
the <strong>Selwyn</strong>/Waikirikiri River<br />
again.<br />
The other rivers will include<br />
the Heathcote and the Avon<br />
rivers in Christchurch; the<br />
Orari, Opihi and Waitaki rivers<br />
in South Canterbury and the<br />
Waimakariri and Hurunui rivers<br />
in North Canterbury.<br />
Ms Barnes and Ms Gallagher<br />
are looking for funding to make<br />
a film of the hikoi.<br />
Ms Barnes’ family farm is in<br />
the Rakaia area and she said water<br />
issues were close to her heart.<br />
“It’s something I’m extremely<br />
concerned about. I take a very<br />
close interest in what’s going<br />
on with the expanding dairy<br />
farming on the plains and every<br />
time I travel up there, there has<br />
been more irrigators go up, more<br />
hedges come down, more water<br />
pipes trawling across the plains,”<br />
she said.<br />
“Although I am from a farming<br />
background and my family<br />
are farmers and I understand<br />
how important water is for<br />
growing crops, I do see that the<br />
balance is actually being tipped a<br />
little bit and it’s not in favour of<br />
the environment.”<br />
•Anyone interested in<br />
providing funding for the<br />
hikoi film can email Ms<br />
Gallagher at doygalpress@<br />
yahoo.com<br />
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