A top Kiwi actress features in a $3.5 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign which National say deliberately smears the country's local councils.
Thor: Ragnarok and Hunt for the Wilderpeople's actress Rachel House lends her voice to the Government's campaign to get people on board with its three waters proposal.
"Imagine Aotearoa without good water – what a stink as place that would be," she said in the ad.
She then describes a number of scenarios where filthy water is creating distress for the cartoon characters depicted.
"That's why we've got a plan – because we're water's biggest fan," it goes on to say.