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Dear John --
Right now, your drinking water,
wastewater and stormwater services are controlled by your elected
council. Your local water assets have been paid for by
ratepayers over decades.
Labour’s Three Waters plans
would see the Government steal your local water assets and strip
control from your community. It would bundle your assets into regional
mega-entities and put community control at arm’s
length.
National will keep local assets in local
control, and we will protect community decision-making.
John, help us stop the asset grab. Sign our
petition here.
These new water entities would be ivory towers spread over hundreds
of kilometres, made up of a complex smorgasbord of appointees and
bureaucrats.
Councils would have token representation,
alongside iwi, in appointing decision-makers, ownership rights would
be confused and unclear, and water services will no longer be
accessible to you, their customers.
On top of that, the
touted scale benefits are unrealistic, and communities with good water
services will end up subsidising their poorer-performing neighbours.
Your water bill might be funding water infrastructure in a totally
different region.
National will keep local assets in
local control, and we will protect community decision-making. We can’t
afford to lose the ‘local’ from local government. New Zealanders must
reject this brazen asset grab.
Please sign our petition to stop Labour's Three Waters
plans today.
Regards
Judith Collins
National Party Leader
Christopher Luxon
Local Government
Spokesperson
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