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Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson and Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta are making a Three Waters announcement.
Three Waters is the Government's plan to establish four publicly-owned entities to take responsibility for drinking water, wastewater and stormwater from local councils.
Under the Three Waters model, local councils will remain the owners of their water assets but they will not have control over them. Their influence on the water entities will be via regional representative groups who will be 50 percent council members and 50 percent iwi.
A public shareholding structure has been recommended for Three Waters to ease concerns raised by local councils about losing ownership of their assets.
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