10:00 am today

Morning Report Essentials for Friday 9 August

From Morning Report, 10:00 am today

On today's episode, Ellesse Andrews won the women's Keirin at the velodrome in a dominant final performance, taking gold, and the K4 500m team also won gold overnight, Nathan Rarere brings us the latest from Paris, the Government believes its new water-service system will give local government the certainty they need, while also minimising costs on ratepayers around the country, Local Government Minister Simeon Brown joins us, we also have our weekly political panel and we cross the Tasman to get the latest from Kerry-Anne Walsh.