The Herald's Opinion: Monday, January 18, 2021: Hunter Water needs a little more action, a little less self-congratulation

Ian Kirkwood
January 18 2021 - 8:00am
SOURCE OF TENSION: Some of the residents of nearby apartments, who, along with shopkeepers in the Marketown complex, have told of their frustration and concern over the years of smell from the Hunter Water pumping station - with the red roof and dark grey paint - and its adjacent vent stack. Hunter Water acknowledges the problem.
SOURCE OF TENSION: Some of the residents of nearby apartments, who, along with shopkeepers in the Marketown complex, have told of their frustration and concern over the years of smell from the Hunter Water pumping station - with the red roof and dark grey paint - and its adjacent vent stack. Hunter Water acknowledges the problem.

IN its latest, 2020, annual report, Hunter Water tells its readers - in the usual vainglorious tones taken by government agencies reporting to their ministerial masters - that its "corporate values of Leading, Wellbeing, Trust, Inclusion and Learning have been very much on display over the last year".

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Ian Kirkwood

Ian Kirkwood

Journalist

Reporting journalist at the Newcastle Herald since 1987. Editorial writer, general reporter, industrial relations, industry and coal.

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