It’s not how commercial agricultural interests have funded culture war groups to denigrate the debate into ‘Maaaaaaari is stealing da water’. The pure genius of 3 Waters is the total focus on pipes and drains which amount to 1% of water ways. That’s 140million humans pissing and shitting into every water way we have throughout NZ. That ruling said Māori water rights existed and that it was up to the Crown and Māori to negotiate that. Unfortunately, Labour were too cowardly to make this argument when 3 Waters was first released and it’s ended up as an existential race war.

Source: Stuff April 14, 2023 00:41 UTC