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...
Category : Three Waters
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...
New green infrastructure programme
Auckland Council and WSP Opus are teaming up to launch the National Green Infrastructure Certification Program (NGICP) in this country. The NGICP is a US-based...
Water management in the Netherlands
Marta Karlik-Neale moved to the Netherlands recently [2019]. She says that in some areas of New Zealand we will have to learn to live with...
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...