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Speaker 1: Together, Duperzy Ellen.

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Speaker 2: Eighteen past five. More water trouble in Wellington. This time

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Speaker 2: it's the price of water. Now it is estimated that

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Speaker 2: the average Wellington household will be paying an average of

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Speaker 2: fifty dollars a week for water within their rates bill

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Speaker 2: from the second half of this year. Wellington City councilor

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Speaker 2: Tim Brown is with me now hate.

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Speaker 1: Tim, Hi very well, thank you?

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Speaker 2: Is this for real? Is this really happening?

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Speaker 1: Yes, the average water charge per rate payers have been

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Speaker 1: like twenty five hundred dollars or twenty six hundred dollars.

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Speaker 2: Why is it so high?

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Speaker 1: Well, remember that if you live at Auckland, your water

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Speaker 1: charges don't cover store border, so our water charges cover

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Speaker 1: all three you know, store water, sewerage and drinking water.

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Speaker 1: And it has approximately doubled in about the last five years.

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Speaker 1: So it's what's closer to where Auckland's were five years

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Speaker 1: years ago. And it's quite hard to actually fully understand

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Speaker 1: why our network is in such bad condition, but it

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Speaker 1: is obviously in that bad condition because the money. You

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Speaker 1: know that, we do know that the money is being

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Speaker 1: spent fixing lenks and such like, so you know, it's

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Speaker 1: not like the money is disappearing somewhere. It has actually

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Speaker 1: been spent fixing problems.

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Speaker 2: If we did apples for apples, and you know, Auckland

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Speaker 2: has had the storm water included and blah blah blah,

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Speaker 2: and we're all paying exactly the same thing. Would you

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Speaker 2: guys be paying in Wellington about what everybody's paying? Would

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Speaker 2: it be more or would it be less.

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Speaker 1: That I'm not too sure. I think I saw from

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Speaker 1: a media report that the average water care charge is

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Speaker 1: about one hundred dollars per month per resident, yes, or

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Speaker 1: per connection, so it's about twelve hundred dollars. I would

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Speaker 1: doubt that storm water would be the same again on

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Speaker 1: top of that, so I would suspect that Wellington is

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Speaker 1: probably paying something more than Auckland at the moment.

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Speaker 2: We'll listen, good luck with it, because you guys just

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Speaker 2: have constant troubles with the stuff, don't you. That's Tim Brown,

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