{"id":11198,"date":"2024-08-29T17:36:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T05:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11198"},"modified":"2024-08-29T17:36:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T05:36:36","slug":"minister-appoints-new-chair-and-members-to-water-services-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11198","title":{"rendered":"Minister appoints new chair and members to Water Services Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Minister of Local Government Simeon Brown has announced new appointments to the Board of the Water Services Authority \u2013 Taumata Arowai (the Authority), including a new chair, and has reappointed two members of the Authority\u2019s M\u0101ori Advisory Group for a further three-year term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former Watercare chief executive Raveen Jaduram\u00a0is the new Chair of the Authority Board.\u00a0He is joined by new Board members Amanda Singleton and Dr Frances Hughes. These appointments are all for a three-year term which begins 29 August.<\/p>\n<p>Riki Ellison and Bonita Bigham have been reappointed to the Authority\u2019s M\u0101ori Advisory Group with Mr Ellison also appointed chair. These appointments are also for a three-year term, beginning on 29 August.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe collective knowledge and experience of the new Board and M\u0101ori Advisory Group members will be valuable going forward and aligns with the current and future work programme under Local Water Done Well,\u201d Mr Brown says.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month the Government announced several changes to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the drinking water regulatory regime and the approach the Authority takes to regulating the regime, under Local Water Done Well.<\/p>\n<p>Changes include ensuring the Authority considers the cost of compliance on suppliers when performing its functions, reducing the regulatory burden on very small drinking water supplies, and enabling the Authority to proactively issue exemptions from certain regulatory requirements, where compliance with the Water Services Act is impractical, inefficient, unduly costly or burdensome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy appointment of Mr Jaduram as Chair of the Water Services Authority along with new members Amanda Singleton and Dr Frances Hughes reflects the increased emphasis on the Authority\u2019s work with local government and the practicalities of providing infrastructure and local water services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank the outgoing chair of the Authority\u2019s Board Dame Karen Poutasi and outgoing Chair of the M\u0101ori Advisory Group Tipa Mahuta for their respective service to the Board and Group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to working with the new members as they begin their terms,\u201d Mr Brown says.<\/p>\n<p>~Beehive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Local Government Simeon Brown has announced new appointments to the Board of the Water Services Authority \u2013 Taumata Arowai (the Authority), including a new chair, and has reappointed two members of the Authority\u2019s M\u0101ori Advisory Group for a further three-year term. Former Watercare chief executive Raveen Jaduram\u00a0is the new Chair of the Authority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,208,174,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-nz-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11200,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198\/revisions\/11200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}