Feeling it in your waters
By Elizabeth Hughes. Some would say councils are wastefully spending rates on nice-to-have pet projects instead of the basics. While councils invested $7 billion in...
Tag : Local Water Done Well
Call for a national data taskforce
There are many potential fishhooks in reform of the water sector and creating new organisations to run the sector will take significant investment, says Greg...
Removing well-being responsibility from local government
By Peter Dunne. The water pipe, which burst beneath Wellington’s Cambridge Terrace on Wednesday morning [21 August], could not have chosen a better moment to...
A message from the top
By Simeon Brown, Local Government Minister. February 2024. I believe well-functioning and effective local government plays a vital role in supporting and growing our local...