22-02-2024, 03:05 PM
According to this, its a possibility. And a very concerning one,at that. If this lot could find a way to make us all pay to breathe, they would.
https://thestandard.org.nz/get-ready-for...rivatised/
"This week National has passed legislation through Parliament dismantling Three Waters.
I have always struggled to understand its opposition.ÔÇéThe countryÔÇÖs water systems are in very poor shape.ÔÇéFar too many people have been poisoned.ÔÇéThe infrastructure is crumbling before our eyes.ÔÇéIn our major cities water and sewerage pipes that should have been replaced years ago have succumbed to old age and are collapsing at a remarkable rate.ÔÇéAnd there is currently not the faintest hope that the various water systems will be improved to make them resilient to climate change.
But somehow National and its partners persuaded many Kiwis that dealing with these existential threats was a bad thing.
The biggest source of angst and the driver of the anti 3 waters campaign was the possibility that Māori  would be given too many rights over water.
Which ignores the fact that Māori has a significant interest in water.
Even National acknowledges Iwi rights to and interests in water.
But the dogwhistle┬ápossibly Atlas funded campaigns┬áagainst Three Waters worked.ÔÇéIt was assisted by some┬árather expensive litigation┬áby the Water Users Group which was fronted by Stephen Franks and Brigitte Moreton.
ÔÇéI still cannot understand why she was permitted as the lawyer involved to┬ácomment repeatedly on the issue on state owned Radio New Zealand.ÔÇéUltimately the litigation┬áfailed┬ábut politically the damage was done.
The GovernmentÔÇÖs reversal of three waters is the latest example of its activity in cancelling something but having nothing to replace it with.
Simeon BrownÔÇÖs and NationalÔÇÖs alternative proposal is to let Councils sort it out themselves.ÔÇéEssentially sink or swim and some of the smaller local authorities may be doing more sinking than swimming".
https://thestandard.org.nz/get-ready-for...rivatised/
"This week National has passed legislation through Parliament dismantling Three Waters.
I have always struggled to understand its opposition.ÔÇéThe countryÔÇÖs water systems are in very poor shape.ÔÇéFar too many people have been poisoned.ÔÇéThe infrastructure is crumbling before our eyes.ÔÇéIn our major cities water and sewerage pipes that should have been replaced years ago have succumbed to old age and are collapsing at a remarkable rate.ÔÇéAnd there is currently not the faintest hope that the various water systems will be improved to make them resilient to climate change.
But somehow National and its partners persuaded many Kiwis that dealing with these existential threats was a bad thing.
The biggest source of angst and the driver of the anti 3 waters campaign was the possibility that Māori  would be given too many rights over water.
Which ignores the fact that Māori has a significant interest in water.
Even National acknowledges Iwi rights to and interests in water.
But the dogwhistle┬ápossibly Atlas funded campaigns┬áagainst Three Waters worked.ÔÇéIt was assisted by some┬árather expensive litigation┬áby the Water Users Group which was fronted by Stephen Franks and Brigitte Moreton.
ÔÇéI still cannot understand why she was permitted as the lawyer involved to┬ácomment repeatedly on the issue on state owned Radio New Zealand.ÔÇéUltimately the litigation┬áfailed┬ábut politically the damage was done.
The GovernmentÔÇÖs reversal of three waters is the latest example of its activity in cancelling something but having nothing to replace it with.
Simeon BrownÔÇÖs and NationalÔÇÖs alternative proposal is to let Councils sort it out themselves.ÔÇéEssentially sink or swim and some of the smaller local authorities may be doing more sinking than swimming".
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)