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Guidance and resources
Here you will find guidance on how to keep your drinking water safe along with guides on how to submit notifications and manage your drinking water supply information in Hinekōrako - the self-service portal for laboratories and drinking water suppliers.
Advice for drinking water suppliers following a flood event - Rainwater
Fact sheet for drinking water suppliers following a flood event including advice on rainwater supplies and water storage tanks
Advice for drinking water suppliers following a flood event - Bore water
Fact sheet for drinking water suppliers following a flooding event including advice on bore water supplies and water storage tanks
Drinking water supplies following a flood event
Fact sheet providing advice on water supplies following a flood including ensuring your drinking water is safe
Renewal of Drinking Water Supply Registration Guide
This guide takes you through the steps to renew your Drinking Water Supply registration in Hinekōrako.
Manage Drinking Water Safety Plans
This guide takes you through the steps to provide and then view your Drinking Water Safety Plan in Hinekōrako.
Drinking water safety planning template for medium supplies
This template may be useful when preparing a drinking water safety plan for medium supplies (101 - 500 people). Use it with the guidance.
Quick guide to uploading your Drinking Water Safety Plan
This quick guide will help you upload your Drinking Water Safety Plan to Hinekōrako.
Drinking water safety planning guidance for medium supplies
This guidance may be useful when preparing a drinking water safety plan for medium supplies (101 - 500 people). Use it with the template.
Drinking water safety planning guidance for very small communities
This guide may be useful for when preparing a drinking water safety plan for very small communities (up to 25 people). Use it along with the template.
Drinking water safety planning template for small supplies
This template may be useful when preparing drinking water safety plans for small supplies (26 - 100 people). Use it with the guidance.
Drinking water safety planning guidance for a small supply
This guide may be useful when preparing a drinking water safety plan for small supplies (26 - 100 people). Use it along with the template.
Drinking water safety planning template for very small communities
This template may be useful when preparing a drinking water safety plan for very small communities (up to 25 people). Use it along with the guidance.
Tutorial 4 for water carriers - Final information
This video will take you through the steps to confirm the details of a migrated water carrier supply in Hinekōrako.
Tutorial 3 for water carriers - Supply Relationships in Hinekōrako
This video will take you through the steps to confirm the details of a migrated water carrier supply in Hinekōrako.
Tutorial 2 for Water Carriers - supply components
This video will take you through the steps to confirm the details of a migrated water carrier supply in Hinekōrako.
Tutorial 1 for Water Carriers - Editing a supply
This video will take you through the steps to confirm the details of a migrated water carrier supply in Hinekōrako.
Guidance on drinking water safety planning
This guide covers the importance of risk management in the supply of safe drinking water and provides examples of risk management approaches.
The role of Taumata Arowai in relation to stormwater
Find out more about what our role will be in relation to stormwater from October 2023.
Manage laboratory portal users (for Laboratory Administrators)
This guide provides details on how to set up multiple users and administrators in Hinekōrako.
Find a submitted laboratory notification (for all lab users)
This guide details the steps to find and view a notification that a drinking water supply test has exceeded a MAV
Establish laboratory portal and RealMe® account (for all users)
This guide details how to create a laboratory user account in Hinekōrako, including how to create your RealMe® account.
Confirm a migrated supply (for Water Carriers)
This guide takes you through steps to view and confirm the details of a migrated Water Carrier supply in Hinekōrako.
Create and submit a laboratory notification (for all lab users)
This guide takes laboratories through the steps to submit a notification that a drinking water supply test has indicated an exceedance of the MAV.
Guidance for source water risk management planning
This guide covers the importance of protecting drinking water at its source and what you should consider when carrying out risk management planning.
Manage supply portal users (for Supply Group Administrators)
This guide takes you through steps to provide others with access to the supplies you administer and determines what users can/cannot do
Supply data (Planned Event Temporary Supply)
This guide explains the data recorded about planned event temporary supplies in Hinekōrako - our regulatory and intelligence system.
Establish supply portal and RealMe® account (for all users)
This guide takes you through the steps to create a user account in the supplier portal part of Hinekōrako
Manage an individual user profile (for all users)
This guide explains how to manage the details of your user profile in Hinekōrako
Confirm a migrated supply (for all users except Read Only)
This guide takes you through the steps to view and confirm the details of a supply which has been migrated from the Ministry of Health databases
Find and view a notification (for all users)
This guide takes you through the steps to find and view a notification made to Taumata Arowai relating to one of your drinking water supplies
Register a new supply (for all users except Read Only)
This guide details steps to register a new supply including adding sources, treatment plants and distribution zones as well as involved organisations
Supply data (Water Carrier Service)
This guide explains the data recorded about water carriers in Hinekōrako - our regulatory and intelligence system.
Understand supply groups and user roles (for Supply Group Admin & Supply Admin)
This guide explains supply groups, supply relationships and supply user roles within Hinekōrako and how these three things are related
Chapter 8: Protozoal compliance
Protozoal compliance guidelines
Chapter 6: Bacteriological compliance
Bacteriological compliance requirements
Chapter 1: Introduction
An introduction to the Ministry of Health guidelines for safe drinking water.
Correct an invalid Hinekōrako invitation code (for all users)
If your email security doesn't recognise us as a safe domain it may encrypt invitation links. This guide tells you how to correct the link code.
View supply details (for all users)
This guide takes you through the steps to view the details of a supply on Hinekōrako
Edit a supply (for all users)
This guide takes you through the steps to update the details of a supply in Hinekōrako
Supply data (for all users excl. Water Carrier & Planned Event Temporary Supply)
This guide explains the data recorded about drinking water supplies in Hinekōrako - our regulatory and intelligence system
Manage supply portal users (for Supply Administrators)
This guide takes you through steps to provide access to the supplies you manage and determines what users can/cannot do with respect to those supplies
Create and submit a supply notification (for all users except Read Only)
This guide takes you through the steps to submit a notification to Taumata Arowai relating to one of your drinking water supplies
Chapter 2: Management of community supplies
This chapter discusses good management practices for community drinking-water supplies.
Volume 3 Datasheets – Micro-organisms protozoa
Volume 3 Datasheets – Micro-organisms
Part 1.2: Protozoa
2019
Chapter 7: Virological compliance
Virological compliance guidelines
Chapter 9: Cyanobacterial compliance
Cyanobacterial compliance guidelines.
Chapter 10: Chemical compliance
Chemical compliance guidelines
Chapter 11: Radiological compliance
Radiological compliance guidelines
Chapter 12: Treatment processes, pretreatment
This chapter covers bankside filtration and the other pretreatment processes that do not qualify for protozoal log credits.
Chapter 13: Treatment processes, coagulation
This chapter covers the water treatment process of chemical coagulation, with or without sedimentation.
Chapter 14: Treatment processes, filtration and adsorption
This chapter discusses diatomaceous earth filtration, slow sand filtration, membrane filtration, cartridge filtration, and bag filtration
Chapter 5: General microbiological quality
This chapter discusses the microbiological quality of drinking-water in general terms.
Volume 3 The datasheets index
Index of micro-organisms, chemicals and physical determinands which have a datasheet
Pumps, Pipes and Storage
Information on water storage and pipe network i.e. a distribution system
Secure groundwater bores and wells for safe household water
Information on bores and wells and how to keep your drinking water safe.
Chapter 4: Selection of water source and treatment
Information that is needed in the planning stages of developing a new water supply, and the barriers that can be used to protect public health.
Volume 3 Datasheets – Chemical and physical determinands pesticides
Volume 3 Datasheets – Chemical and physical determinands
Part 2.3: Pesticides
2019
Guidance to determine water supply population
This guide will help you calculate the number of consumers served by a drinking water supply.
Chapter 3: Water sources
This chapter focuses on source water and the different issues surrounding safe drink water sourcing.
Guidance for registering a temporary drinking water supply for a planned event
Use this guide when registering a temporary drinking water supply for a planned event such as a festival, sports event, or market day.
Chapter 15: Treatment processes, disinfection
The following sections provide background information about disinfection and disinfectants that will act as a basic guide to their selection and use.
Guidance for registering a drinking water supply
This guidance includes information you need to know when registering a drinking water supply in Hinekōrako – the online self-service portal.
Chapter 16: The distribution system
The integrity of well managed distribution systems is one of the most important barriers that protect drinking-water from contamination.
Chapter 17: Monitoring, water treatment and drinking-water
Monitoring involves sample collection, delivery, storage, testing, and recording and reporting the results.
Chapter 18: Aesthetic considerations
This chapter provides information on the sources and occurrences of the aesthetic determinands.
Volume 3 Datasheets – Chemical and physical determinands cyanotoxins
Volume 3 Datasheets – Chemical and physical determinands
Part 2.4: Cyanotoxins
2019
Volume 3 Datasheets – Chemical and physical determinands Organic chemicals
Volume 3 Datasheets – Chemical and physical determinands
Part 2.2: Organic chemicals
2019
Drinking Water Safety Planning - Planned Event Temporary Drinking Water Supply
Use this approved template for drinking water safety planning of a temporary drinking water supply for a planned event.
UV Disinfection and Cartridge Filtration
Information about the supply of safe drinking water, for small water supplies, using UV Disinfection and Cartridge Filtration.
Chapter 19: Small, individual and roof water supplies
This chapter of the Guidelines provides references to a range of resources and information to assist these small water suppliers
Appendix 2: Statistical issues that relate to the Drinking-water Standards of NZ
Statistical issues that relate to the Drinking-water Standards of New Zealand
Guidance on applying for an exemption
Information for drinking water suppliers who wish to apply for an exemption from compliance with certain requirements of the Water Services Act 2021.
Ministry of Health handbook for preparing a Water Safety Plan
This guide details what a Water Safety Plan should contain and is designed to be used in conjunction with the Ministry of Health's Framework
Volume 3 Datasheets – Micro-organisms viruses
Volume 3 Datasheets – Micro-organisms
Part 1.4: Viruses
2019
Volume 3 Datasheets – Micro-organisms Bacteria
Volume 3 Datasheets – Micro-organisms
Part 1.1: Bacteria
2019
Household drinking water supplies
Information on the supply of safe drinking water to households not connected to town water supplies - including water sources, storage and treatment.
Volume 3 Datasheets – Micro-organisms other
Volume 3 Datasheets – Micro-organisms
Part 1.5: Other
2019
Request for suppression of information from the Public Register
The process for requesting suppression of information from the Public Register, and the factors we will consider when assessing the request
Ministry of Health: New Zealand Drinking-water Safety Plan Framework
This framework presents an international best practice structure that is consistent with the World Health Organisation
Volume 3 Datasheets – Micro-organisms cyanobacteria
Volume 3 Datasheets – Micro-organisms
Part 1.3: Cyanobacteria
2019
Volume 3 Datasheets – Chemical and physical determinands - Inorganic chemicals
Volume 3 Datasheets – Chemical and physical determinands
Part 2.1: Inorganic chemicals
2019
Volume 3 Datasheets – Chemical and physical determinands aesthetic determinands
Volume 3 Datasheets – Chemical and physical determinands
Part 2.5: Aesthetic determinands
2019
Water collection tanks and safe household water
Information on how to provide safe drinking water to your household from a water collection tank