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Yeah, we really need a long term strategy. When you want to get elected, you make promises. When you get elected, you need to fulfil (some of) those promises. When people promise new spending and keeping rates rises to a minimum, your only real option it to kick these cans down the road and cut funding for pre-emptive maintenance.
Despite all the controversy, something like Three Waters was really needed.
Three Waters would have easily passed without the co-governance aspect, it wasn't 3w itself that was the problem.
The co-governance aspect was clearly a huge sticking point, and I agree Three Waters would have passed under the previous government without it. But this government has been very vocal about staying out of local government (except when they don't like something a council did...) so a reformulated Three Waters seems very unlikely to pass in the current climate even without a co-governance aspect.
There were also councils quite against Three Waters in general, which as far as I saw were the ones doing a good job on their own. Kind of like how only people in flood zones want flood insurance, I guess.
Yeah, there was a somewhat justified feeling that areas that had kept on top of their infrastructure would end up subsidising the fuckups, it was a major sticking point in the super city proposal falling through as well.