Mel Tavendale

Yeah, we've got a long, big land area, which that's where the water conversation has really hit us hard.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, we're sitting on $12,000 rate payers, so $14 million deficit for one year is massive.

And when we're talking...

Next year, we've got a $37 million capital works programme just in water.

So, you know, this is where the rubber's hit the road.

And we've talked about water for a long time.

It's not until it actually does hit the budgets that people really comprehend that, you know, there's a lot for small councils to handle.