Te Puna Kōrero
Consultation
Find out more about our consultations. Your feedback helps inform our decisions and regulatory approach.
Open consultations
Help shape New Zealand’s wastewater future
We want your feedback on the proposed national wastewater environmental performance standards, which aim to:
- provide local councils with the certainty they need to plan and deliver essential wastewater upgrades for communities
- make wastewater consenting more cost effective for communities, while protecting public health and the environment.
Find out more and have your say.
Consultation closes at 5pm on Thursday, 24 April 2025 (noting that 25 April is ANZAC Day).
Closed consultations
We recently sought feedback on:
In 2022, we sought feedback on:
- Drinking Water Standards
- Drinking Water Quality Assurance Rules
- Drinking Water Aesthetic Values
- Drinking Water Acceptable Solution for Roof Water Supplies
- Drinking Water Acceptable Solution for Spring and Bore Water Supplies
- Drinking Water Acceptable Solution for Rural Agricultural Water Supplies
- Drinking Water Network Environmental Performance Measures
- Network Environmental Performance Measures
- Notifiable Risks and Hazards
Consultation on these documents is now closed.
| Published | Came into effect | |
| Drinking Water Standards | 9 June 2022 | 14 November 2022 |
| Drinking Water Aesthetic Values | 15 June 2022 | 14 November 2022 |
| Drinking Water Quality Assurance Rules | 25 July 2022 | 14 November 2022 (anticipate reporting in line with the new Rules from 1 January 2023) |
| Drinking Water Acceptable Solutions | 27 October 2022 | 14 November 2022 |
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Drinking Water Network Environmental Performance Measures |
30 June 2022 | Phase one: reporting period begins 1 July 2022 |