Capital and Coast DHB Board Member and Porirua Mayor, Nick Leggett and Southern Ward Councillor, Paul Eagle, have highlighted a bizarre decision by Council to refuse to fund the emergency water reservoir that serves the Hospital.
WCC have obviously missed all those warnings we grew up with that it is a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’ Wellington is pummeled by an enormous earthquake. So by most peoples judgement, a decent emergency water supply to the Hospital might be something worth investing in… particularly given water is a Council responsibility.
Civil Defence estimate it could take as long as 50 days to get the water supply back on in Wellington after a quake and the Hospital is left with a maximum of 5 days worth currently. For some reason, WCC have decided that it doesn’t want to fund the vital extra reservoir as it has higher priorities than emergency water…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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