Congratulations to Te Kotāhi Research Institute for the invitation to join the US$30 million research for Indigenous Knowledge and Science based research at University of Massachusetts, to collectively connect indigenous knowledge with other cultures with science for areas like climate change and impacts on ecosystems, as reported recently on Sunlive news.

This international collaboration of indigenous leaders will use ancestral wisdom to help western science address climate change. Part of this research will be addressing areas like WAI 262 protecting water from pollution, while the New Zealand Government's agenda is to push more toxins, like fluoride, into our water supply.

Even the US Environmental Protection Agency has called for a reduction in toxic waste, active pharmaceuticals and livestock chemical levels, including plastics in our water if our water ecology is going to survive.

Janice Priest, Tauranga City.