Infrastructure failures

Lifelines are the essential utility systems that serve communities - water supply, transportation (road, rail, sea and air), electricity and gas supply, communication networks (telephone, television, cable and radio) and sewerage or wastewater.

Lifelines groups are voluntary associations of utility companies working to reduce the vulnerability of their systems to natural hazards and improve performance during and after a disaster.

There are two lifelines groups in the Wellington region, the Wellington Lifelines Group and the Wairarapa Engineering Lifelines Association.