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The late expansion of Three Waters to Five by Minister Nanaia Mahuta seems to have caught her own Cabinet colleagues out, with even the Prime Minister's office taking a while to get its spin straight on this one.
'Nothing to see here, you are just confused' is now the mantra.
Three or Five, the more troubling aspect of Mahuta's water work is probably the Te Mana o Te Wai statements which seem to allow Maori to lay claim, with no apparent parameters, to local water of any kind and all related economic "aspirations".
Apart from Newstalk ZB, media have largely ignored this and the implications for other water users such as farmers.
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