Sharon Brett-Kelley

So do you feel like New Zealand is going in the right direction on this, on the critical minerals?

If you want to hear more about what's going on in the Clarion-Clipperton zone with the fight over deep sea mining, we did a podcast about it last July and it's worth a listen.

The Detail is a Newsroom production supported by RNZ and New Zealand On Air.

Today's podcast was produced by Alexia Russell and engineered by William Saunders.

Thanks to Fox Meyer and Jamie Ensor.

I'm Sharon Brett-Calley.

Mā te wā.

I'm Sharon Brett-Kelly and today on The Detail I'm in the tradies entrance of a Plumbing World store in Auckland looking at pipes.

I'm with Ruben Cutts, Northern Region Manager of Plumbing World, a plumber-owned cooperative.

This podcast isn't all about plumbing, it's about how petroleum is in every facet of our lives.

Not just the petrol for our car, but in what we wear, what's in our supermarket trolleys, our makeup, even some chocolates.

It's in our furniture, our curtains, the heaters we use and, of course, the plumbing.

And right now, the Middle East war is having a huge impact on the cost of plumbing products, with prices set to soar.

Yeah.

I mean, that makes...

The whole plumbing of a house or a building.

A third more expensive.

Roughly, we're talking about a three-bedroom house.

What would be the cost of doing the plumbing work?

And so if you add 30% onto that, that's a chunk?