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Speaker 1: Ten councils across Wellington in the way a rapper want

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Speaker 1: more time to consider water reform plans. They currently have

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Speaker 1: a year to develop an adopt mechanism. So the mayors

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Speaker 1: have done the collective letter thing asking for an extension.

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Speaker 1: Now that you're of the Advisory Oversite group, name Kerry

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Speaker 1: prindigasters with us on this Kerry.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Good morning, nice to talk to you and you too.

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Speaker 1: Water reform has been on the agenda for years and

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Speaker 1: years and years. Why do you need even more time?

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Speaker 2: Well, because there is new legislation being promulgated. We've put

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Speaker 2: a submission in. The reality is we have a year

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Speaker 2: from when it gets concerned and trying to get ten

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Speaker 2: councils first of all to agree on a financially sustainable

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Speaker 2: water program, but then they have to talk to their

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Speaker 2: elected officials. Then we have to consult with the communities,

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Speaker 2: and then we have to come up with a package

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Speaker 2: that is going to take longer than a year. Would

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Speaker 2: you ask them, could that make it two years?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Would you reckon? Other councils will be going here

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Speaker 1: here we agree, or you're some sort of outlier with

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Speaker 1: your group of ten and you can't quite get your

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Speaker 1: act together.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, I think we're probably first cab off the rank.

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Speaker 2: The reality is the government did a deal with Auckland

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Speaker 2: where as far as we know, we're far more advanced

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Speaker 2: than any other groups of counselors and the work we're doing,

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Speaker 2: and I think they'll all be agreeing with us. They

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Speaker 2: need more time.

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Speaker 1: The ten you're talking or representing, is that a deal

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Speaker 1: you're going to look to put together as a group

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Speaker 1: of ten or you just happen to be ten in

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Speaker 1: the region.

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Speaker 2: Now at the moment we're ten in the region. We

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Speaker 2: also have horror for Noah being part of us, so

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Speaker 2: that mags up the ten so capity down through and up,

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Speaker 2: but all of the wire Rapper Greater Wellington Regional Council

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Speaker 2: and horror for Noa. That's ten. That's a lot of people,

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Speaker 2: more than half a million. It's a lot of water

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Speaker 2: reform for stormwater, water and sewage, so it is a

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Speaker 2: big package. We hope to hold the ten together. Two

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Speaker 2: groups are saying, well, we'll work with you up a

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Speaker 2: certain point and if the numbers look too scary, we

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Speaker 2: might go with someone else. The reality is we all

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Speaker 2: have to do something and the Government's made it very

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Speaker 2: clear if we don't come up with a financially sustainable

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Speaker 2: package that our community can afford, they'll do it to us.

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Speaker 2: So there is momentum as a local body election next year.

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Speaker 2: And of course the other thing that we've asked for

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Speaker 2: is not just the extension of time to put together

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Speaker 2: the package, but more time to implement it. The government

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Speaker 2: suggesting we have to do it within ten years. The

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Speaker 2: numbers are too big for our communities to afford over

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Speaker 2: ten years.

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Speaker 1: See what the government says upon receiving the letter. Good

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Speaker 1: to catch up, don't Kerry prindergast with us this morning.

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