I’m not sure how or why the NZ economy manages to get water management so completely wrong, all the time. How is it that Australia, Britain, Japan, I dunno – everywhere else in the world – can have decent water management, and yet we cannot? It is not like we are short of water! Surely we have more water than just about any other country! It…
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nemo
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Well, we were surprised again, but we should not have been. Slow off the mark here, I know, but i really needed some days of sunshine before i could write about the deluge of crap weather we’ve been having lately. I must say, though, that this city never ceases to amaze me. I mean, look at this picture below: The video is as harrowing as hell…
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The WCC sub-committees are going flat out at the moment, consulting wildly on this and that and approving all manner of things – I can hardly keep up. I’m glad I’m not a Councillor or the Mayor, having to read this amount of paperwork each week is fairly exhausting. Mind you, they get paid for reading it (and I’m fairly sure that many of the Councillors…
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Dedalus
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Did Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, or Jean-Jacques Rousseau have in mind the water infrastructure of Wellington (a city which didn’t exist yet) when they drafted their theories on social contract? We cannot say. Nevertheless, water management is certainly bringing social contract into play in New Zealand, at both a national and urban level: public outcry over international exploitation of national water supplies has highlighted the responsibility…
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