The government has announced sweeping changes to the way drinking water will be managed - taking control away from local government and putting it in the hands of a central authority.
It's a response to the campylobacter outbreak in Havelock North in 2016, which left four people dead and made five-thousand people ill after the town's water supply was contaminated.
Lawrence Yule is the MP for Tukituki and was the mayor of Hastings during the Havelock North water crisis.
He tells RNZ reporter Anusha Bradley that even before the Havelock North incident he had been calling for better water management.
