Whanganui River

…And then there's the second way of seeing the river, and he gives a quote here from Gerald Albert, who's the lead negotiator for the river,…

…The first is that of the crown, a utilitarian perception which has always viewed the Whanganui River as a resource and service provider, there to be manipulated and exploited as the state has seen fit, and to be anatomized into its notionally separable, commodifiable elements, the bed, the banks, the flow, the fish, the minerals that lie beneath it.…

…so here's a bit from mcfarlane at the act's heart is a radical claim that the wanganui river is alive and an ancestor to the wanganui or iwi tribe the act speaks unambiguously of the river as and quote indivisible and living whole and quote a spiritual and physical entity with a life force…