The Coalition Government’s legislative plan to address longstanding issues with local water infrastructure and service delivery took an important step today, with the repeal of Labour’s divisive and unpopular Three Waters legislation, Local Government Minister Simeon Brown says.
“Repealing this legislation is a necessary first step in implementing our Local Water Done Well policy, and a key part of our Government’s 100-day plan.
“The vast majority of councils around New Zealand were opposed to Labour’s Three Waters reform, and we are delivering on our commitment to restore local council ownership and control of water assets.
“I am aware that councils are in different stages of completing their long-term plans and some have already begun consultation. With local responsibility for water services restored, the legislation passed today provides much needed flexibility to councils by enabling a range of voluntary options to help them complete and adopt their long-term plans.
“Two further bills will be introduced this year to progress our policy of Local Water Done Well, with the first introduced and enacted by mid-2024, and the second introduced in December 2024 and enacted by mid-2025.
“Local Water Done Well recognises the importance of local decision-making and flexibility for communities and councils to determine how their water services will be delivered in future. We will do this while ensuring a strong emphasis on meeting rules for water quality and long-term investment in infrastructure.
“We are asking councils to lead the way in developing local solutions to our water services challenges. This includes requiring them to provide water services delivery plans that outline how they will deliver on outcomes for water quality, infrastructure investment and financial sustainability.
“I want to acknowledge mayors and communities across New Zealand who opposed Labour’s centralised and bureaucratic mega-entity model. I now look forward to working with them as we deliver Local Water Done Well.”
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Sorry Tory
LABOUR should be repealed.
And throw the commie-GREENS in the dustbin of history too.
Hmmm but as the Taxpayers Union said whats it going to be replaced with?
Doesn’t matter, so long as it’s not the centralised, top down, WEF-approved woke communism Jacinda was proposing. There’s a reason the majority of councils REJECTED 3 waters, it was utter dog sh**.
When something is so good it has to be FORCED on you, you’d best believe it’s not going to be in your best interests.
One can assume that the “3 waters” under Labour (which ultimately is WEF controlled – Claus Schwab – “you will eat the bugs”) would have been used to create water shortages at the tap and also such that farmers cannot water their crops This would be consistent with what the farmers in the EU and US are experiencing now: Making it so difficult to farm that farmers give up and then we get food shortages. Also, rich people like Bill Gates buying up arable land in the US and then doing nothing with it. Or people coming in with eminent domain and seizing arable land in order to put pipelines over it that would be used for some “environmental” purpose.
All engineered shortages and scarcity in order to control us.