视频：信报独家专访安荣·坎贝尔
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去年以来，水的加氯问题一直困扰着基督城人。
此前，由于发现一些地下井口可能在严重的洪水中受到污染，基督城市政府从去年3月末开始对水进行氯化处理。然而，基督城的许多居民对此怨声载道，称自来水尝起来“就像游泳池的味道”。
一些人认为氯化水是造成或恶化皮肤的问题所在。由于氯的干燥特性，对于易患湿疹的人来说，氯化水会使皮肤变得更加干燥，从而加重了这一皮肤问题。
基督城市政府供水改善计划经理Helen Beaumont表示，饮用水改造工程是市政府的主要优先工程。“我们知道回到无氯饮用水对居民来说非常重要，因此我们正在尽可能快地完成城市最后的井口升级改造。”
在2019年地方选举中，基督城有位候选人从头到尾的竞选内容就是——“水”。
安荣·坎贝尔（Aaron Campbell），自2016年起担任Harewood社区委员会成员。他此次作为独立候选人，参加2019年坎特伯雷环保委员会(ECan)基督城西部地区的竞选。
“我为什么参加坎特伯雷环保委员会的竞选？就一个字，水。”坎贝尔对《信报》说。
两年前，他作为社区委员会成员曾公开反对在贝尔法斯特（Belfast）地区开设瓶装水工厂。至今，在坎特伯雷获得瓶装水准许的公司已从8家增至18家。
他说，“水是世界上最宝贵的资源，这样的处理方式不是民众和社会愿意看到的。正是宽松的监管环境使这样的情况频频发生，政府需要采取行动与社会期盼保持一致。”坎贝尔支持暂停对瓶装水厂分发许可。
坎贝尔还公开反对基督城饮用水的永久性氯化。
坎贝尔说：“我们需要尽一切努力，以保证安全可靠的非氯化饮用水供应。”
坎贝尔也是Aotearoa Water Action（AWA）的联合创始成员。
他说，坎特伯雷许多地区的水体质量和数量都在下降。由于畜牧因素，土壤层中富含动物尿液，而动物尿液中有含量极高的氮。因为宽松的监管体系，政府依然允许在这样的土壤上进行奶牛养殖，久而久之就形成了恶性循环。
对他来说，硝酸盐污染是最严重的长期问题。“想想看，75年以后，甚至100年以后，基督城的饮用水会是什么样子？”
公共交通方面，坎贝尔说，政府应该提供捷运或便捷快速交通。“我倾向坐公交车，事实上我们需要让更多的人搭乘公共交通，这样路上的私家车就会更少，争夺停车场的竞争也会随之消失。”
作为公司董事，坎贝尔和妻子在凯波伊（Kaiapoi）经营着一家餐饮公司。2010年，他们曾在基督城大教堂建造了“世界上最大的百露华蛋糕（Pavlova）”。2011年2月基督城大地震，坎贝尔和妻子通过这样的形式为慈善机构KidsCan筹集资金。
坎贝尔说他喜欢保持忙碌的状态，可以说是个工作狂。他喜欢摄影和古董车，最爱他那台1969年的FiatBambina。坎贝尔说正考虑把他的老爷车变成电动车。
2016年，坎贝尔还自愿帮助现任基督城市长莉安·达泽（Lianne Dalziel）竞选连任市长，并担任莉安的竞选秘书。今年他将继续扮演这个角色，帮助莉安竞选。
坎贝尔在海外生活了九年，此前在伦敦和日本都居住过。他在日本遇到了他的妻子。坎贝尔说：“大约20%的基督城居民都不是在新西兰出生的，包括我的妻子，他们的母语不是英语。”
视频：安荣·坎贝尔用中文和日文呼吁大家为他投票
“我的愿景很简单。如果我们有一个健康的生活环境，我们的居民就可以有健康的身体，然后其他的好事也就会随之而来。”坎贝尔说。
Aaron Campbell
Water: Time's Up
A community board member for Harewood since 2016, Aaron Campbell will be contesting the Christchurch West constituency for Environment Canterbury (ECan) in 2019 as an independent candidate.“Why am I running for ECan? In one word, Water,” Campbell told NZ Messenger.He spoke out against water bottling in Belfast as a Community Board member over two years ago. Since then the eight consents to bottle water have now grown to 18 in Canterbury.“This is not what the community wants for its most precious resource, the permissive regulatory environment that enables this to occur needs to align with community, the government needs to take action,” he said, supporting a moratorium on new water bottling consents in Canterbury.Campbell also speaks out in opposition to permanent chlorination of Christchurch drinking water.“We need to make every effort to retain a safe and secure non-chlorinated drinking water supply,” said Campbell, who was also a co-founding member of Aotearoa Water Action (AWA).The quality and quantity of Canterbury’s water is declining in many areas, and a permissive regulatory system has allowed intensification of dairy farming on soils largely unsuited to handle the quantity of nitrogen rich cow urine now being deposited on it, he said.“I hope changes to the Resource Management Act will allow consents to be more easily reviewed and tougher limits on nitrate losses applied,” he added.
For him, nitrate contamination is the biggest long-term issue. “What will the drinking water in Christchurch be like in 75 to 100 years’ time?” he said.On public transportation, Campbell said there should be rapid transit or rapid transport opportunities. “I actually want to ride on the bus…We need to get more people on the bus and therefore there'll be less cars on the road, less competing for car parks.”A company director, Campbell ran a catering business in Kaiapoi with his wife. They made “the world’s largest Pavlova” in the Christchurch Cathedral, raising money for the charity KidsCan following Christchurch’s deadly earthquakes in February 2011.He said he likes to keep busy and is a workaholic, with photography and his 1969 Fiat Bambina being his passions. He is thinking of turning his classic car into an electric one.He also volunteered to help Lianne Dalziel in 2016 for the mayoral re-election as her campaign secretary, a role he isrepeating this year.Spending about nine years overseas, Campbelllived in London and Japan where he met his wife. “Approximately 20 percent of Christchurch residents were not born here in New Zealand, and speak a language other than English, and that includes my wife,” Campbell said, adding there is so much enthusiasm and energy that immigrants can bring to the city.“My vision is pretty simple. If we have a healthy environment, we can have healthy people. Then the other good things can really happen,” Campbell said.
