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It's Stop Work on Three Waters!

Brown declares Three Waters 'doomed' as Watercare is ordered to stop work and S&P announces that no new rating decisions will be taken by the agency until after the election which it calls 'vital'.

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Philip Crump
Oct 17, 2022
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The local government elections have been widely viewed as a referendum on Three Waters but in reality they also appear to have triggered a series of announcements which dramatically call into question the viability of the controversial project.

It was no coincidence that, in the aftermath of the local government election…

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