Ratepayers fork out $354,000 for PR firms following Wellington water woes
ROSA WOODS/STUFF A collapsed pipe in Willis St in December 2019 was the beginning of a bad 12 months for Wellington's ailing water pipe network. (File photo) Ratepayers have forked out more than $350,000 on public relations experts hired by Wellington Water in the past year to manage major network failures. Figures obtained through the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act revealed the organisation spent $354,621 on media management contractors between November 2019 and December 2020. The recruitments followed a number of major failures on the capital’s water network duri...
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