How did Veolia, a French multinational with a poor track record, get contracts to run Wellington's wastewater and fill Wellington harbour with a giant plume of shit?
It's the same in Queenstown where Veolia mismanaged the Shotover Wastewater Plant which is still discharging muck into the Shotover River every day.
This story outlines a few of Veolia's transgressions in other parts of the world.