Tim Dower: Our water needs attention, but Three Waters is not the way to do it

It's hard to understand the Government's obstinacy on the Three Waters reforms.

From the get-go, the response from local bodies up and down the country has been a pretty resounding, no thanks.

They've read the room; local voters either don't like the plan one bit or don't understand or don't even know what's happening.

Only a quarter of us think Three Waters is a good plan, that's according to a One News - Kantar poll.