Larry Williams Drive

If you want to watch ratepayers completely ignore and defy their council, watch the water drama in Wellington unfold. Wellington - as you know - has major water issues.  There are pipes busting in the centre of the city on a regular basis. On the street that I live, we have a regular leak. It plays out like this: The leak starts. We call the council. Nothing happens. Us neighbours talk to each and decide amongst ourselves to all call the council again. We do. The council sends some guys in high vis vests around, they tow some cars and take a look, they leave.   The water still flows. It gets worse over the next few weeks (yes, weeks) until it’s actually running so fast you could fill a bath in half an hour.   We call the council again, properly angry this time. They come around and finally fix it. But by the time they fix it, we have lost so much of the city’s water it’s infuriating. That’s happened about three times in the last four or five years. That’s just one leak in one street. There have been more than