Tim Dower: Three Waters reform is not the answer

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Dec 14, 2021 · 1m

Three Waters is back on the agenda today.

23 local councils are going to Parliament to make their opposition clear.

That's around a third of the local bodies affected by Three Waters, but it doesn't mean the other 44 are all on board.

And they're right to be suspicious of it.

Three Waters will take away all those council-owned drinking water systems and the storm water and the wastewater...and hand it over to four unelected regional bodies.

Now, when the Minister is asked to explain why we need to do this at all, she points to the Havelock North incident five years back.

And fair enough, that…