#3waters — Public Fediverse posts
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Wellington the shitiest little Capital in the world
#3Waters #NZpol
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/586154/removing-sewage-before-it-goes-septic-is-main-focus-of-wellington-water-company -
Well shite Wellington, literally shite
(at least those Māori didn't get any say though right?)
Thanks racists
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Sorry Wellington this Govt wants a rates cap so good luck swimming in shite
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CW: NZ - the cost of hydrating and pooing
When the Luxon government lobbed all of the government's Three Waters costs onto Councils, I'm sure even ardent Nat fanbois didn't expect reality to hit this hard.
In Waitaki the Council has approved a plan to increase water charges by 90% over two years from $1352 to $2566. That's water only... it doesn't include rates.
Queenstown Lakes has signed off on rises which will take the current average $1,500 water bill to $4,889 over eight years.
That is unsustainable for many people. It's never been more expensive to live alone.
https://crux.org.nz/crux-news/new-qldc-cco-water-charges-set-to-rise-to-a-future/
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Gore -- don't drink the water due to elevated nitrate levels.
The story doesn't dare hint at what may have caused those elevated nitrate levels. Maybe it's farming runoff, or maybe we'll never know.
https://www.odt.co.nz/southland/gore-residents-warned-not-drink-towns-water
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@ClareBear They should write to their MPs. Let me check:
Napier - Katie Nimon, National Party
Tukituki - Catherine Wedd, National PartyPerhaps they'll know who cancelled 3 Waters
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Look at what we've done. We disagree with the #Māori health authority, it wasn't working. It didn't deliver outcomes, it was massive bureaucracy. We didn't agree with co-governance of #3Waters. We've disbanded that. We didn't agree with actually Wellington mandated local Māori wards we opposed in opposition and we've actually pushed that back to local communities. That's how you deal with the issues. Case by case.
#NZPol 7/
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CW: NZPol
You only have to recall the high level of interest and involvement by foreign based lobbying organisation, the #AtlasNetwork had in destroying #3Waters and #Labour’s plans to nationalise our water resources to know this Nact1st government is not acting in the interests of New Zealand.
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BE WARNED #NewZealand
The Tories who are responsible for privatising England's #3waters have also been advising our #National #Act #NZFirst govt on NZ's 3 waters reform. The one legal collective defense Aotearoa still has against privatising or foreign ownership and control of NZ water is te Tiriti o Waitangi principles. 🤔
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Hey #NZTwits Chris Bishop has just recently been in the UK meeting with the Tories that privatised England’s #3Waters
#NZPol #TiritiOWatangi -
In all the discussion about centralisation, such as the furore over 3 Waters, one question never seems to get asked. Why are small organisations struggling to get credit, even for essential public interest work, such that amalgamation into mega-entities is seen as the only financially viable solution?
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Btw, the last Labour Govt did pass #3Waters legislation and had already invested $ including compensating many local bodies for these assets.
NACTNZF simply repealed that legislation wasting all the work and $ invested in addressing NZ's 3 Water infrastructure crisis to please their dark money #AtlasNetwork funders. -
@pezmico
Was talking to an elderly Nact voter at a recent event. He was trying to argue NZ is too small to afford luxuries.
Luxuries? Do you seriously believe clean drinking water is a luxury? I asked.
He spluttered something about it being Grant Robertson's fault yet couldn't accept #3Waters was a smart and far more affordable solution than Nact using racism to divide NZ for electoral gain and destroy te tiriti's protection of NZ's water and privatise NZ's water assets.
#NZPol #AtlasNetwork -
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@esoterica The absolute shit pie Simeon Brown is baking to replace #3Waters is such a confusing and illogical policy I’m really surprised he and the government aren’t getting more pushback or criticism from #NZMedia. #NZPol
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CW: NZ Pol
I suggested this was the case a while ago and I’m even more convinced I’m right after Simeon Browns comments on the advisory group and legislative replacements due after the three waters repeal. I believe National are setting the scene for privatised water services and usage charges. This will make their rich donors happy, and some of them even richer, at the cost of ordinary people. Councils will get forced into it by required delivery standards and no other funding. #nzpol #3waters
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Queenstown is warning of water restrictions. There's plenty of water but demand is exceeding their ability to treat it without expensive upgrades.
https://crux.org.nz/crux-news/qldc-water-systems-stretched-council-appeals-for-less-usage/
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CW: NZ politics.
@jackyan @jamesfluker As a former Wellington Central voter for many years I still take a keen interest in the electorate. For Wellington Central #NZTwits voters. This is the three candidates who are polling within a few points of each other on Active a couple of weeks ago. I still can't understand National opposing #3Waters considering water infrastructure is the Nat candidate's main concern.
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CW: NZ Politics, Attack adverts
@Kay And the anti #3Waters anti Māori anti Tiriti o Waitangi and anti democracy astroturf groups active in #NewZealand are all being directed and in part funded by the US Far Right lobbying organisation the #AtlasNetwork which both the NZ #TaxPayersUnion and #NZInitiative are members of. I certainly would prefer US style attack ads made by NZers than anti NZ democracy ads made by the US. Are #NZMedia wilfully ignorant? #NZPol
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CW: NZ Politics, Attack adverts
@Kay And the anti #3Waters anti Māori anti Tiriti o Waitangi and anti democracy astroturf groups active in #NewZealand are all being directed and in part funded by the US Far Right lobbying organisation the #AtlasNetwork which both the NZ #TaxPayersUnion and #NZInitiative are members of. I certainly would prefer US style attack ads made by NZers than anti NZ democracy ads made by the US. Are #NZMedia wilfully ignorant? #NZPol
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CW: NZ Politics, Attack adverts
@Kay And the anti #3Waters anti Māori anti Tiriti o Waitangi and anti democracy astroturf groups active in #NewZealand are all being directed and in part funded by the US Far Right lobbying organisation the #AtlasNetwork which both the NZ #TaxPayersUnion and #NZInitiative are members of. I certainly would prefer US style attack ads made by NZers than anti NZ democracy ads made by the US. Are #NZMedia wilfully ignorant? #NZPol
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CW: NZ Politics, Attack adverts
@Kay And the anti #3Waters anti Māori anti Tiriti o Waitangi and anti democracy astroturf groups active in #NewZealand are all being directed and in part funded by the US Far Right lobbying organisation the #AtlasNetwork which both the NZ #TaxPayersUnion and #NZInitiative are members of. I certainly would prefer US style attack ads made by NZers than anti NZ democracy ads made by the US. Are #NZMedia wilfully ignorant? #NZPol
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CW: NZ Politics, Attack adverts
@Kay And the anti #3Waters anti Māori anti Tiriti o Waitangi and anti democracy astroturf groups active in #NewZealand are all being directed and in part funded by the US Far Right lobbying organisation the #AtlasNetwork which both the NZ #TaxPayersUnion and #NZInitiative are members of. I certainly would prefer US style attack ads made by NZers than anti NZ democracy ads made by the US. Are #NZMedia wilfully ignorant? #NZPol
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#NZTwits, a very real and frightening reality to consider when deciding how to cast your #NZVotes2023 #NZPol #PartyVote is who owns and controls #Aotearoa #NewZealand. The attempts for the Govt's #3Waters urgent investment and upgrades has not only been opposed to by both National & ACT but have been stymied by far right racist rhetoric and political opportunists funded by dark money.
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#NZTwits, a very real and frightening reality to consider when deciding how to cast your #NZVotes2023 #NZPol #PartyVote is who owns and controls #Aotearoa #NewZealand. The attempts for the Govt's #3Waters urgent investment and upgrades has not only been opposed to by both National & ACT but have been stymied by far right racist rhetoric and political opportunists funded by dark money.
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#NZTwits, a very real and frightening reality to consider when deciding how to cast your #NZVotes2023 #NZPol #PartyVote is who owns and controls #Aotearoa #NewZealand. The attempts for the Govt's #3Waters urgent investment and upgrades has not only been opposed to by both National & ACT but have been stymied by far right racist rhetoric and political opportunists funded by dark money.
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#NZTwits, a very real and frightening reality to consider when deciding how to cast your #NZVotes2023 #NZPol #PartyVote is who owns and controls #Aotearoa #NewZealand. The attempts for the Govt's #3Waters urgent investment and upgrades has not only been opposed to by both National & ACT but have been stymied by far right racist rhetoric and political opportunists funded by dark money.
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#NZTwits, a very real and frightening reality to consider when deciding how to cast your #NZVotes2023 #NZPol #PartyVote is who owns and controls #Aotearoa #NewZealand. The attempts for the Govt's #3Waters urgent investment and upgrades has not only been opposed to by both National & ACT but have been stymied by far right racist rhetoric and political opportunists funded by dark money.
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The compromise demanded by some local govt bodies will mean a reduction in the Labour Govt's #3Waters economic benefits. But even with these compromises it still means household savings for water costs. It also means immediate work can begin on restoring and improving #NZTwits neglected water quality and infrastructure. #NZPol
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/quick-start-to-three-waters-could-save-auckland-and-northlanders-1000 -
How utterly useless is Wayne Brown? ⬇️
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Kieran McAnulty meets with West Coast mayors to discuss water reform.
"The reality is we're already sending people in Westport a bill for over $1000 for drinking water and close to $1000 for wastewater, so they're paying $2000 a year now for those services and think within a relatively short time, within five years they'll be paying closer to $4000 for water services."
The Coast badly needs water reform, but not all Councils realise that, yet.
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@BobLefridge It’s not hard to work out why National and ACT are doing everything they can to stop #3Waters going through or repeal it if there’s a change of government. There’s huge money to be made from water as a commodity which will be near impossible to cash in on with Māori co-governance.
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@paw @BigD @ArrestJK Yes. Imo, his big mistake was personalising his criticism rather than speaking about the implications of ignoring #3Waters and the problems with National's nothing burger policy. He called out the Nat's for dog whistling and everyone knows he's right but, sometimes, calling out racism is a bigger crime than racism.
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Listen to National Party #3Waters spokesperson, Simon Watts' answer here @ 4:20 ...the difference with our model is we're not going to mandate the legal structure or the entity in which they have to form to achieve that. 🚩 🚩 🚩
#NZPol Leaves the door wide open for either #SellingAssets or #Privatisation of NZ's water and it's infrastructure. #NeverTrustATory
https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018879578 -
Surprise, surprise.
Beyond the “whatever Labour proposes is bad” and the set PR talking points - National’s alternative to #3Waters fails to pass muster, especially ignoring the reality of local councils constrained debt capacity/borrowing ability to fund water infrastructure.
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The New Zealand High Court tells the Timaru District Council that the government is allowed to make law.
#ThreeWaters #3Waters
Judgment: https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases/2023/2023-NZHC-244.pdf
Media release: https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases/2023/MR-2023-NZHC-244.pdf -
Excellent explainer on 3 Waters
https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/the-explainer-the-governments-three?r=uco2z
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Rain - lots of it (both in frequency and volume) - is perhaps New Zealand’s most obvious climate change impact.
Our aged (and often decrepit) water infrastructure is woefully inadequate to cope with it.
And many Councils continuing opposition to major water infrastructure reform only compounds an ever increasing problem for every city and town across the country.
#climate #water #infrastrucure #3Waters #rainfall