Will Wellington be cancelled?

Will Wellington be cancelled?
The capital faces water restrictions, and some big battles. (Image: Mark Mitchell/NZME)
Dileepa Fonseka
“We’re currently asking people in the capital city of New Zealand to prepare for a natural disaster which we knew was coming: it’s called summer,” says frustrated economist Brad Olsen.  Olsen, principal economist at Infometrics, has been following these council infrastructure issues over a number of years, including analysing how much money councils allocated for infrastructure spending and maintenance actually got spent. And to Olsen, who is in favour of measures like water meters and spending more on maintain...

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