Key Documents for NZ Drinking-Water

This page links to the key current documents available on the Ministry of Health or other official sites. The All Documents page shows these as well as older or subsidiary pages. So come here first, but go there next if you want to go deeper.

You can also check the Ministry of Health Drinking-water home page for their latest news and updates.

Annual Review of the Microbiological Quality of Drinking-Water in New Zealand:
new	2009/10 version, published June 2011
Register of Community Drinking-Water Supplies in New Zealand:
new	Register 2011 May 2011
The Health (Drinking Water) Amendment Act 2007
	1 April 2008 Full text of the Act, with a link to a downloadable pdf.
Drinking-Water Assistance Programme
	Capital Assistance Programme put on hold by Government. 1 September 2009.
	Criteria for Capital Assistance for Small Drinking-Water Supplies November 2006
	Drinking Water Assistance Programme (DWAP) June 2006
Drinking-Water Standards
	Drinking Water Standards for New Zealand 2005 (Revised 2008) November 2008
Public Health Grading
	Public Health Grading of Community Drinking - Water Supplies 2003, September 2003 Note the September 2004 Amendment to this Grading on the same page.
Public Health Risk Management Plans
	Overview of Public Health Risk Management Plans: How to Prepare and Develop Public Health Risk Management Plans for Drinking-Water Supplies, November 2000
Other MoH Documents
	Ministry of Health Sanitary Works Subsidy Scheme, December 2002