Challenging traditional assumptions in pipeline renewals
Out with the old, in with the new? Asset owners are rethinking how they manage ageing pipe networks as emerging ‘condition assessment technologies’ expose the...
Category : Three Waters
How connected are three water bylaws?
Three water bylaws, now relegated to the background amidst budget sheet separation, water service plans, service delivery models, and price regulation, play a crucial role...
Views on revamped three waters reform
Photo: The boundaries of the ten water services entities. By Alan Titchall. A wolf now dressed up as a lamb? Most councils and observers remain...
When urban intensification doesn’t work
Caption: Balmoral School playing field turned into a huge lake that spilled into the local suburb flooding housing during the storm over Auckland, January 27,...
‘Sorry’ seems to be the hardest word
At the end of November 2022, as Parliament sat under Extended Hours to pass the Committee of the Whole stage of the controversial Water Services...
Micro TBM
Wellington Water and contractor McConnell Dowell are involved in a project at Barber Grove in Lower Hutt using micro-tunnelling for the first time in the...
Confessions and victories of a council activist
Wellington’s outspoken Owhiro Bay ‘water activist’, Eugene Doyle, outlines how his vexed relationship with Wellington Water transformed into a collaboration to help clean up the...
A contractor’s point of view
Alan Titchall and Ruth Le Pla ask Tim Gibson, the executive general manager Citycare Water, about the council-owned company’s national maintenance division that was formed...