I quote John Wesley-Smith, the Tītahi Bay Surf Life Saving Club chairperson, "Our biggest worry is sewage. We've got sewage coming from everywhere at the moment on our beach. [It is] really affecting our community and our club, primarily because we can't put people in the water.' Hundreds of kids come to the beach every Sunday for the club's water safety programme - but in the past 12 months, one-third of all these were cancelled or scaled-down because of the health risk."