LeakBird

(April 16, 2009, The Dominion Post)
Landowners with the right to take more water than they need are selling their surplus allocations and pocketing the cash.
There is nothing illegal about selling access to public water for private gain, but conservationists say it is a growing practice that could spell doom for rivers already under pressure, and [...]

(Feb. 25, 2009, Aguanomics)
Readers will know that I favor neither public nor private (investor-owned) provision of water, since the problems of ownership structure are less important than the problems of monopoly. (And the solution to monopoly — if not competition — is careful community monitoring.)
For more evidence on what does and does not matter, read [...]