There should be almost no change in the day-to-day delivery of your water services. You would still get high quality, treated water when you turn on your tap and your wastewater would be treated to a high standard. You would see water and wastewater charges shown as a separate charge to your council rates and your water services organisation may have a different name or website. The changes would be at a higher level – the new organisation would be able to invest more in maintenance and the infrastructure required for growth, it may be a bigger organisation sharing costs across a wider area, and it would be able to use these efficiencies to reduce future costs to consumers. The costs to deliver water services are increasing for everyone, but this new approach would help lessen the increases, allow the costs to be spread over a longer period, and ensure costs are shared by future generations who use new waters infrastructure. Government regulation would set limits on what the organisation could charge, and how much it needs to invest in the future.