Tim Dower: Three Waters continues to be a slap in the face for councils

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jul 15, 2021 · 2m

The more I see of this Three Waters legislation, the more it smacks of a dictatorship bent on centralisation, and the less I like it.

This is a massive change in the way we live our lives, everyone needs water.

But it's being hammered through with indecent haste, and the strategy seems to be to swamp us with very dodgy data and immensely complex legislation.

The Prime Minister tried to win over local mayors yesterday with a sweetener, two and a half billion dollars to encourage them to go along with it.

At the same time, the Government claims we need to spend anything from 120 billion to 185…