Have your say on making drinking water safer for everyone
We have launched a public consultation on proposed changes to the National Environmental Standards for Sources of Human Drinking Water (NES-DW). Your feedback is welcome until 6 March 2022.
- Make a submission
- Consultation document: Kia kaha ake te tiakina o ngā puna wai-inu - Improving the protection of drinking-water sources
- Full press release from the Minister
Everyone should have access to safe drinking water. We are considering changes to NES-DW to make our drinking water safer, and we want to hear what you think.
The Government is proposing three key areas of improvement to NES-DW to strengthen its ability to protect drinking water sources: standardising the way we define source water areas, strengthening regulation of activities around water sources, and including more water suppliers under the NES-DW.
You can read more about the proposed changes and make a submission using the links above.
Feedback received will help us further refine our proposal to amend the current NES-DW, before the regulations are redrafted and gazetted later in 2022.