This request and release is about the chemicals and metals, and their levels, found in New Zealand water over the last five years.
Response date
22 February 2024
Type
Departmental
This request and release is about the chemicals and metals, and their levels, found in New Zealand water over the last five years.
Response date
22 February 2024
Type
Departmental
Details of the request
What chemicals can be found in New Zealand water -- in reservoirs, lakes, streams, rivers, the sea, drinking and washing water. Please detail the chemicals and metals, and their levels, found in New Zealand water over the last five years.
Are there metals in the water of any type or location, such as copper, mercury, lead, cadmium, aluminium, barium, iron, strontium, graphene? What are the levels of these or other metals in the water? Are they all removed from drinking water?
Are there any micro-plastics or nanoparticles found in the water of any type, and if so, what are they, and what are they levels of them? If so, where do these items come from?.