Photo: Paul Robinson
As Wellington's five metro councils move towards joint water services, Wellington City Councillors have voted in favour of funding an independent Water Consumer Advocacy Group.
MetroWater, the joint council body, will be formed under the government's Local Water Done Well, which requires new water organisations to report to council owners as the key relationship, but not to customers.
Tim Brown has been a Wellington City Councillor for the past three years.
He spent nearly three decades with the infrastructure investor Infratil.
He is not standing for council again, but in the final meeting of this triennium, proposed a resolution that the Wellington City Council provide financial support to an independent water consumer advocacy group to be up and running by next March.
It was unanimously passed. He speaks with Susie Ferguson, along with Gillian Blythe, chief executive of the industry body Water New Zealand.
