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How Wellington became the poster child for NZ s water infrastructure crisis 7 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 11 minutes to read Wellington issues reporter, NZ [email protected] Wellington s forgotten infrastructure has come home to roost in the form of broken pipes, sludge trucks, sewage in the streets, and a public outcry. In January 2020 Wellington s mayor was comfortable with the amount of money being spent on water infrastructure and described the timing of two catastrophic pipe failures as appallingly bad luck . A year later it is clear the state of the city s horizontal infrastructure has nothing to do with luck and is instead the victim of decades of underinvestment, three of which Mayor Andy Foster has been on council for. ....