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by jcz_nz 120 days ago
Background: for decades the water management was handled by local govt, disastrously. Previous govt. (Ardern) fought like hell to wrestle this back to national govt, pushed it through as more systems were found to be on the verge of collapse. The trumpkins that got elected next rolled this back immediately (“big bad central govt!”) and so now these water systems are collapsing, and the right wing is doing the GOP-style “oh yeah WE are FINALLY going to fix this”. Thanks Luxon you f’ing idiot.