Mayor Phil Goff says Watercare could have done betterThe departing chief of Auckland Council’s Watercare company says media and political focus on his $775,000 salary was the last straw in his decision to resign. Raven Jaduram said the media attention on his salary, at a time of unprecedented drought, was something neither Watercare, nor his family, needed. Jaduram said he would have been reluctant to leave if he had failed to secure the $224 million of funding needed to boost water supply progressively over the next year. Todd Niall/Stuff Raveen Jaduram, the CEO of Watercare, at a media conference on the need for water restrictions in Auckland. Jaduram said he did not set his own salary, and told RNZ it was not for him to say what his successor should be paid.

Source: Stuff September 14, 2020 22:30 UTC