#3waters — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #3waters, aggregated by home.social.
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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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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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How utterly useless is Wayne Brown? ⬇️
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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