Letters: Water wouldn't be wasted if users had to pay

Here on the Kaharoa water supply we pay by the litre! We also have to buy and maintain a very expensive water pump, which burns out at various times. Plus the holding tank and the half-inch piping which springs a leak, then you get an even bigger water bill.

Stop moaning all you water wasters. When you really see how much water you waste when you get a metered bill, you will stop that waste to reduce your bill!

We win all round, [water's] a vital resource and must be respected, it's not a right to have lovely safe water, it's a cost we all must share.

ANITA STANLEY
Rotorua

While it is great to go on about 'our people', celebrate our sporting heroes, read about people who live to 100 and talk about inspiring stories of local people who beat cancer, we ought to sometimes focus on how we have wrecked things for millennials.

Millennials have no money because we make them pay for higher education. They have no money because there aren't any jobs. They have no money because the rental market is full of property speculators. Millennials will never buy houses because we have bought them all ourselves, so that we can be rich and not work.

Millennials can't get good pay because we have imported cheap workers to weaken the labour market.

We ought to be ashamed of ourselves for leaving nothing but debt, unemployment and overpriced, badly made houses to the millennial generation. I would encourage Millennials to create a social media movement that canvases politicians and ruthlessly exposes those who continue to behave in anti-millennial behaviour.

You Millennials have to get organised, as Mr Tweedy said in Chicken Run, if you want to escape the horrors of the exploitative, uncaring, avaricious generation of your parents.

GJ PHILIP
Rotorua