Nobody dares to speak the truth: Wellington is Effed
When the Kaikoura quake struck it did more than root up Kaikoura, a few farms, a road and a rail line, it also screwed up Wellington.
Buildings are being pulled down, and the port is rooted…so too is the water supply:
Quake-damaged pipes in Wellington are leaking around one million litres of water every day.
The system has been in this state since the November 14 Kaikoura earthquake, but authorities have no idea where the quake-damaged pipes are in the network. Read more »

As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.
They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.
He is fearless in his pursuit of a story.
Love him or loathe him, you can’t ignore him.
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