Letters to the editor: Three waters decision of utmost importance

Rotorua Wastewater Treatment Plant. Photo / File

In my opinion, it is unfair that mayor Steve Chadwick, deputy mayor Dave Donaldson, and councillors Trevor Maxwell, Tania Tapsell and Merepeka Raukawa-Tait are appointed to a sub-committee on Three Waters, as reported on July 6.

Rotorua people elected one mayor and 10 councillors to represent their interests.

All 11 elected people need all the information to make the right decision and ask questions on the Three Waters programme.

Three Waters will be the most important decision to be made by Rotorua Lakes Council for the next 30 years.

Assets will be sold, and the fresh-water springs used by the council will go to government control. The four business arms of Three Waters have not yet been established.

The council's finances will be hugely affected, and it may be Rotorua ratepayers who will be paying even more in the future.

Mark Gould
Owhata

Govt should pick up tab on failed batteries

If this Government is so set on everybody changing to electric vehicles, it might find incentives need to be spread a bit wider, not just purchase rebates.

Perhaps it could show that it really wants people changing to EVs by replacing failed batteries. For new New Zealand-bought vehicles, the Government could pick up the tab when the first battery fails no matter how long it takes.

For second-hand sales, it could pick up half the tab when these units fail, no matter the length of service.

The Government had better get the disposal of these failed batteries sorted out pronto, now, not in three years when they start showing up.

This idea would make me a bit more inclined to dump my gas-guzzling V8 Commodore.

It would certainly prove that lip service from the Government is not all hot air. I think it won't happen in my lifetime no matter how much the Government dreams about it.

I believe there are more pressing things to sort out, such as dealing with our waste.

To get power for all these EVs, how about burning our waste instead of the Government burying its head in the landfill - along with the rubbish.

Kill two birds with one stone.

Rod Petterson
Rotorua

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