Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 2, 2020 3:51:46 GMT 12
GOFF SCOFFS AT PAYING FOR WAIKATO WATER
Auckland mayor Phil Goff refuses to pay Waikato-Tainui to draw water from their ancestral waterway.
“We did have a silly suggestion yesterday that maybe we’d pay $20 million a day for the water,” Phill Goff says.
“That’s $140 million a week.
He says no one pays for water from a catchment and so Auckland Council shouldn’t either. People pay to get water processed and sent to their home, rather than for the water itself.
“Nobody in this country pays for water out of a river,” Goff says.
“When you pay for it, because you’re attached to a municipal supply, you’re paying for the infrastructure that delivers it.”
The former Labour Party leader says ownership of water has yet to be determined. The issue of water ownership is something Goff wishes to avoid.......
www.teaomaori.news/goff-scoffs-paying-waikato-water
Auckland mayor Phil Goff refuses to pay Waikato-Tainui to draw water from their ancestral waterway.
“We did have a silly suggestion yesterday that maybe we’d pay $20 million a day for the water,” Phill Goff says.
“That’s $140 million a week.
He says no one pays for water from a catchment and so Auckland Council shouldn’t either. People pay to get water processed and sent to their home, rather than for the water itself.
“Nobody in this country pays for water out of a river,” Goff says.
“When you pay for it, because you’re attached to a municipal supply, you’re paying for the infrastructure that delivers it.”
The former Labour Party leader says ownership of water has yet to be determined. The issue of water ownership is something Goff wishes to avoid.......
www.teaomaori.news/goff-scoffs-paying-waikato-water