Irrigation
Sir,—J. De Wit refers to the brief report of my speech to the Canterbury Promotion Council. In advocating community involvement in irrigation on the central plains, I pointed to the substantial benefits that would accrue to the region and its people. The full text of the points raised by your correspondent was: "The possibility of widespread irrigation on the central plains from the underground resource is remote. The ability of individual farmers to explore for water and finance the development is over-estimated by most people. Farmers individually do not necessarily have the financial or managerial resources to enable them to proceed with development programmes. Nor can it be proved that there is sufficient water below the ground in the appropriate places to irrigate the central plains.”—Yours, etc., D. G. WATSON,
Chairman, Central Plains Irrigation Committee. March 1, 1982.
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