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Speaker 1: Bran Bread.

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Speaker 2: So do we have a case of co governance on

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Speaker 2: our hands, That's what some are saying this time. In

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Speaker 2: order to do it, it's a new deal struck with council. Locally,

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Speaker 2: we will get co management rights over the Katamu Takina Springs,

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Speaker 2: which supplies sixty percent of us drinking water. Tania Tapsle

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Speaker 2: is the mayor there and joins me. Now, Hi, Tanya, sure, Ryan,

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Speaker 2: good to you on the show. So who's what was

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Speaker 2: the reason for this deal being done?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, and I want to address the co governance

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Speaker 1: or co management. I think, you know, you really need

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Speaker 1: to look at the history and the facts, and the

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Speaker 1: really sad case in this instance is that this spring

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Speaker 1: and the surrounding land was forcibly taken by a previous council.

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Speaker 1: So we are actually correcting a lot of wrong. We

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Speaker 1: have managed to give back land surrounding the springs to

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Speaker 1: the area, but most importantly, this spring supplies sixty percent

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Speaker 1: the majority of our city's drinking water. So actually working

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Speaker 1: alongside them, and I've ever said, hey, are you we're

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Speaker 1: going to hold you to ransom, They've never done it.

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Speaker 1: They've always been really happy to support the continual drinking

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Speaker 1: water supply for our community, which we're very grateful for.

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Speaker 2: So now that you have returned it, did they get money.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so there will be an ongoing operational grant to

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Speaker 1: support the trust capacity much to be So it's two

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty four thousand that includes restoration, monitoring of

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Speaker 1: the river. And I've got admit this is the cheapest

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Speaker 1: option as well. There were other options looked into, but

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Speaker 1: as part of holding the consent to take water, there

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Speaker 1: is always going to be ongoing operational cost and the

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Speaker 1: rate that we can work alongside.

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Speaker 2: There And this is yours. This is a council. It

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Speaker 2: is not part of a treaty settlement. It's not part

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Speaker 2: of a government director of This is just a council

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Speaker 2: doing this out of its own back with the EWI yep.

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Speaker 1: The source of the council that said, hey, actually we

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Speaker 1: acknowledged that previous council seventy one years ago did something

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Speaker 1: pretty bad. But this drinking water supply is very crucial

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Speaker 1: for our city. So this what we've done, secures the

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Speaker 1: next thirty five years. I've got to say some of

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Speaker 1: the country's best drinking water.

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Speaker 2: Good on your tiny, tiny tips or mirror't to do it.

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