Watercare rebuffs Wayne Brown’s three waters reform demand

Watercare rebuffs Wayne Brown’s three waters reform demand
Wayne Brown will meet local government minister Nanaia Mahuta to discuss three waters reform today. (Image: NZME)
Pattrick Smellie
Auckland’s water services business, Watercare, will keep working to prepare for the government’s three waters reforms, rebuffing a demand from newly elected mayor Wayne Brown that all work on the reforms should cease immediately.Instead, Watercare chair Margaret Devlin has informed Brown in a letter released yesterday that its “agree statement of intent” for 2021 to 2024 is “to continue to prepare our business, in collaboration with Auckland Council, for water reform by ensuring the company is in the strongest shap...

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