John Tamihere asks who owns the water? and answers: Maori do:
. . .What is bizarre to me is that people who have stolen an asset are now having a debate about the rights over it.
We reject co-governance because we want to have the appropriate conversation about the elephant in the room: how did Pākeha get to the table on a 100% Māori-owned asset? . .
What is bizarre is thinking that anyone can own water.
When does he think the ownership starts and ends? Does it begin in the clouds from which rain and snow fall and end when fresh water turns to salt water in the Pacific ocean?
He is also confused about Three Five Waters which is about water infrastructure.
We’ve gone from calling it Three Waters to Affordable Water Reforms which is just changing the colour of the lipstick on the pig and distracting…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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