Clean water for the region's four cities
Pupils at Discovery School in Whitby found out about the importance of clean water when they visited the Te Marua Water Treatment Plant in June 2006. They also saw first-hand how water is treated before it is distributed to the region’s four cities.
Greater Wellington collects, treats and delivers an average of 155 million litres of high-quality water per day. We undertook a comprehensive monitoring and testing programme and once again, the water supplied from our network met the Ministry of Health’s drinking water standards.
Projects to secure water supply included constructing a new Karori pumping station, investigating, with Wellington City Council, a major new reservoir for the Wellington CBD, and relocating a vulnerable section of the Kaitoke/Karori pipeline.
For 2006/07, the water supply levy is unchanged. This is the tenth year in a row we have either held or cut the cost of bulk water supply through careful cost management.