National and Labour are at odds about how $185 billion bill will be paid for water services if Three Waters doesn't go ahead.
National plans to scrap the contested Three Waters scheme within its first hundred days if elected, and Labour's Local Government Minister Kieran McAnulty says ratepayers will feel the effects.
But National's campaign chair Chris Bishop says their fiscal plan has almost $10 billion for operating buffers and $8 billion for capital allowance - which could help meet cost pressures.
Manawatu Mayor and co-chair of a group of thirty councils which oppose Three Waters Helen Worboys spoke to Corin Dann.
