{"id":15172855,"date":"2026-06-22T21:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/drought-busting-waikato-water-plan-to-flow-on-despite-amalgamation-jitters\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T21:09:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:09:58","slug":"drought-busting-waikato-water-plan-to-flow-on-despite-amalgamation-jitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/drought-busting-waikato-water-plan-to-flow-on-despite-amalgamation-jitters\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought-busting Waikato water plan to flow on, despite amalgamation jitters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new plan for dealing with Waikato&#8217;s increasingly frequent droughts will go ahead regardless of what entities are left standing after local government reform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/regions_local-democracy-reporting\/616664\/drought-busting-waikato-water-plan-to-flow-on-despite-amalgamation-jitters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oceania \u2013 New Zealand \u2013 rss.app \u2192 manual entry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new plan for dealing with Waikato&#8217;s increasingly frequent droughts will go ahead regardless of what entities are left standing after local government 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