22 Aug 2019

Thousands of NZ homes at risk from rising seas - NIWA report

From Checkpoint, 5:41 pm on 22 August 2019

Hundreds of thousands of people, and billions of dollars of property in New Zealand are now deemed to be at risk from flooded rivers and rising seas.

The details are contained in two reports released today by NIWA and the Deep South National Science Challenge.

At least one coastal property specialist is advising people to sell up now, before the tide rises higher.

RNZ's Te Tau Ihu, top of the South reporter Tracy Neal has the story.