Water Summit 2018

Water Summit

Water Summit 2018

Wednesday 30 and Thursday 31 May 2018 MAC’s Function Centre, Taranaki St, Wellington

Day one

Time Agenda Items Speaker
Coffee 10.00 - 10.30am
10.30 – 10.40am Welcome and introduction Dave Cull, President, LGNZ
10.40 – 11.00am Address by Minister of Local Government Hon Nanaia Mahuta
11.00 – 11.30am The Havelock North Inquiry recommendations and scene setting Hon Lyn Stevens QC, Chair, Havelock North Drinking Water Inquiry
11.30 – 11.45am Q&A
11.45 - 12.30pm Regulatory approaches

Regulatory arrangements for drinking water in UK andEurope

Marcus Rink, Chief Inspector for Water Supplies with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (United Kingdom)
Lunch 12.30 - 1.15pm
1.15 – 1.20pm Entities for Three Waters Delivery

Introduction

Dukessa Blackburn Huettner, President, Water NZ
1.20 – 1.40pm Funding pressures for three waters infrastructure Helen Wyn, Deputy Chief Executive Central/Local Government Partnerships

Malcolm Alexander, Chief Executive, LGNZ

1.40-

2.00pm

Co-regulatory model Malcolm Alexander, Chief Executive, LGNZ
2.00 – 2.20pm The Wellington Water Model Colin Crampton, Chief Executive, Wellington Water
2.20 – 2.40pm The Watercare Model Raveen Jaduram, Chief Executive, Watercare
2.40 – 3.00pm Tasmanian Water Model Mike Brewster, Chief Executive, TasWater Tasmania, (Australia)
Afternoon Tea 3.00 - 3.30pm
3.30 – 4.00pm Economic regulation

Learnings from other sectors and application to the watersector

Anton Murashev, Managing Director, Castalia
4.00 – 5.00pm Panel Session Malcolm Alexander (Chair), Marcus Rink, Colin Crampton,

Raveen Jaduram, Mike Brewster and

Anton Murashev

Drinks break out

Day two

Time Agenda Items Speaker
Coffee 8.30 - 9.00am
9.00 – 9.30am Welcome to day two

Focus on freshwatermanagement

Doug Leeder, Chair, Regional Sector
9.30 – 10.15am Getting the water quality outcomes we want–freshwater management – sharinggood practice and looking to thefuture

Getting the balance right between regulation and non-regulatory approaches

Community-led freshwater reform: a tale of twocatchments

Alan Livingston, Chairperson, Waikato Regional Council

James Palmer, Chief Executive, Hawke’s Bay Regional Council

Morning tea 10.15 - 10.45am
10.45 – 11.15am Getting the water quality outcomes we want–drinkingwater

Drinking water and healthoutcomes

Jim Graham, Principal

Advisor Water Quality, Water New Zealand

11.15 – 12.00pm OAG’s thoughts on freshwater challenges

Based on our work on monitoring how water is used for irrigation, and managing impacts to freshwaterquality

Gary Emery, Manager, Office of the Auditor General
12.00 – 12.45pm Priorities for freshwater reform

The Government’s priorities for freshwatermanagement

MfE

Panel – Cheryl Barnes, Deputy Secretary Water, Ministry for the Environment with Alan Livingston, James Palmer and Doug Leeder

12.45 – 1.00pm Wrap up
Conference Papers