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Sunday, 11 July 2010: Auckland's Water Supply
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The formation of Auckland's Supercity brings with it major changes for the region's most basic commodity - water.
A large, monopoly water company will takeover the eight existing council's supply operations just months after a short-lived warning that water restrictions might be needed next summer.
Auckland Issues Correspondent, Todd Niall, looks at how Watercare Services Limited will weigh-up the different water philiosophies of the outgoing eight local bodies, and whether it will continue the conservation drive by one of them, the self-styled Eco-City, Waitakere.
Is there a danger that the new water company will become too big and influential for it's owner, the Auckland Council, to control?
Photo:Wairoa Dam in the Hunua Ranges (source,Watercare Services)
Watercare supplies more than 370,000 cubic metres of water daily to Auckland from 10 dams, one river and one underground source.
Coming Up
8:12 am Sunday 19 February: Christchurch - a year after the February earthquakes
It has been a year since Christchurch was rocked by the devastating earthquake which hit the city on February 22 2011.
With thousands of homes due for demolition, the central city cordoned off, and investigations still underway into why so many people died, what do the people of Christchurch see happening in the years ahead.
Radio New Zealand's Bridget Mills and Rachel Graham find out how the earthquakes have changed the way people go about their work and home life, how businesses are coping, and how a city recovers from one of the worst natural disasters New Zealand has ever seen.
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