The Government says it will go back to parliament's Business Committee to discuss entrenchment in the Three Waters legislation.
This entrenchment would make it very hard for future Governments to overturn anti-privatisation measures.
60 per cent of MP's would be needed to overturn it going forward.
One of the constitutional experts who signed the open letter spurring this announcement, Edward Willis, explained further.
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