Watercare to stop spending money on 'doomed proposal' – Brown

Watercare to stop spending money on 'doomed proposal' – Brown
Margaret Devlin told to abandon three waters plans. (Image: Watercare)
Brent Melville
Auckland mayor Wayne Brown has advised the council-controlled organisation, Watercare, to halt work on the government's three waters programme.The new mayor's edict follows legal challenges to the planned reform of water infrastructure assets for storm, rain and drinking water by several local councils.In a letter to Watercare chair Margaret Devlin, with a similar version copied into Auckland chief executive Jim Stabback, Brown said the three waters proposal had been opposed by both the former mayor and governing body and that it was op...

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