Documents for NZ Drinking-Water

This page includes the Key Documents links, as well as secondary or older documents.

While you can go directly to the Ministry of Health Drinking-water Home Page, you may find the list below gives you quicker navigation - the Ministry site is large and you may need to use their search tools to find what you want otherwise.

Annual Report on Drinking-Water Quality for New Zealand:
	2018/19 version published June 2020
	2017/18 version published June 2019
	2016/17 version published June 2018
	2015/16 version published April 2017
	2014/15 version published March 2016
	2013/14 version published January 2015
	2012/13 version published March 2014
	2011/12 version published June 2013
	Earlier versions: 2010/11 2009/10 2008/09 2007/08 2006/07.
Register of Drinking-Water Suppliers for New Zealand
	2019 Edition published June 2019 (The link includes the four parts of the Register as separate documents.)
Register of Recognised Laboratories for New Zealand
	2019 Edition published June 2019
The Health (Drinking Water) Amendment Act 2007
	1 April 2008 Full text of the Act, with a link to a downloadable pdf. This is not a MoH web page, but is included here because they don't list it.
	Drinking water legislation explanatory page. Includes a full list of current Drinking Water Assessors.
Drinking-Water Assistance Programme
	Assistance programme reopened August 2014
	Drinking Water Assistance Programme MoH starting page for information about this.
Drinking-Water Standards
	Drinking Water Standards for New Zealand 2005 (Revised 2018) December 2018 Official Standard from 1 January 2009.
	Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality Management for New Zealand Updated April 2017
	Rural Agricultural Drinking-water Supply Guideline March 2015
	Datasheets for the Guidelines October 2013
	Drinking-Water Standards for New Zealand 2000, August 2000
Water Safety Plans
	New Zealand Drinking-water Safety Plan Framework December 2018
	Water Safety Plan Guides for Drinking Water Supplies, January 2014
Other MoH Pages
	Review of the Benefits and Costs of Water Fluoridation in New Zealand May 2016
	Plumbosolvency
	Fluoridation
	Public Health Units contact details
	Drinking water publications page