Readers of Point of Order will be familiar with the raft of issues that bedevil legislation to implement the government’s Three Waters reforms.
They extend far beyond co-governance to financing and debt arrangements and have been revealed in a comprehensive series of articles by Thomas Cranmer.
The government is charging on with the reforms regardless, after Parliament’s Labour-dominated Finance and Expenditure Committee reported back comparatively minor changes to the Water Services Entities Bill that will establish four publicly owned water entities to deliver water services around the country.
