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Speaker 1: Either Duplessy Allen either, just wondering why neither you nor

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Speaker 1: Phil Goff posed the question as to whether the war

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Speaker 1: would end if Kamas release the hostages. I'll get back

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Speaker 1: to that in a tick. Jane, thank you for asking

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Speaker 1: the question. Listen eighteen past five round of applause for

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Speaker 1: Timaro because the South Canterbury town has the best tap

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Speaker 1: water in the country, as judged by a panel of

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Speaker 1: judges at the National Water Taste Test competition last night.

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Speaker 1: Nigel Bowen is Timaru's mayor. Hello, Nigel, good evening, How

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Speaker 1: are you well? Thank you? Am I right in thinking

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Speaker 1: you guys have won this three out of the last

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Speaker 1: six times.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. We've done pretty well across different order

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Speaker 2: supplies as well, which has been really good. So you know,

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Speaker 2: the team, are you.

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Speaker 1: Mixing it up? You're not even just going in with

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Speaker 1: the same water supply every time. You're trying it all out.

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Speaker 2: We're mixing it out there. The team have got confidence

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Speaker 2: that they can put any of our water supplies in,

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Speaker 2: so they have mixed it up over the years. So

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Speaker 2: three different order supplies of have won.

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Speaker 1: When you drink a glass of Timaru water as opposed

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Speaker 1: to other water around the country in the world as

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Speaker 1: you travel. Do you think that's a good one?

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Speaker 2: You look, you know, I'm a Timorrow born lad, so

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Speaker 2: I think i'm you know, lucky in the fact that

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Speaker 2: we'll probably take good water for granted. And you know,

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Speaker 2: overall a lot of New Zealand water is not too bad,

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Speaker 2: but it is, it is pretty good, and it's sort

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Speaker 2: of recognition of both the source. Yeah, good, good question.

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Speaker 2: It's just perfect sort of nature's nectar.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Nigel. You can get water that's a little bit

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Speaker 1: on the kind of earthy side. Then you can get

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Speaker 1: the really like tangy metallic stuff, which is what I

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Speaker 1: go for that, do you know what I mean? What

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Speaker 1: have you guys got on? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: No, I actually think it's free from most of those

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Speaker 2: you know, those tastes if you like. So, I think

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Speaker 2: that's what's great about it, sort of, you know, so

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Speaker 2: pure that you know that you can't get much better.

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Speaker 2: And the wonderful thing where this water supply is airports

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Speaker 2: sits on it as well, so you can fly into Timory,

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Speaker 2: get a glass of water from the airport and have

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Speaker 2: a hydration holiday if you like. Lots of lots of opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Hey, just in terms of like actually having the stuff tested,

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Speaker 1: did you get any intel as to where the water

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Speaker 1: changes in the way it tastes, because presumably you're going

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Speaker 1: to have to get it out of the source and

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Speaker 1: put it in a bottle and send it off to

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Speaker 1: wherever to be tested. Does that change its flavor?

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Speaker 2: No, it doesn't. John Clemens who took the sample up

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Speaker 2: so he traveled up from Timaru to Nelson for the competition,

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Speaker 2: so you know, took it up. So no, not at all.

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Speaker 2: I assume probably over a period of time, but you know,

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Speaker 2: a couple of days is fine issue.

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Speaker 1: Nigel, thanks for chatting to us about it. I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate it and well done you guys. Nigel Bowen, Timaro's mayor.

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