Wayne Brown confident 25.8% water hikes can be reduced

Wayne Brown confident 25.8% water hikes can be reduced
Watercare is forecasting significant increases in capital expenditure. (Image: Watercare)
Oliver Lewis
Auckland mayor Wayne Brown doesn’t support a proposal to increase water user charges by 25.8% and believes a solution to avoid the hikes will be in place by June.If negotiations with the government to achieve balance-sheet separation for Watercare aren't successful, Brown suggests the scale of its capital works programme could be pared back to avoid the worst of the increases. “Probably they can justify doing all these works, but if we haven’t got the money for it I’ll just stop them,” he told BusinessDesk...

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