Safe Drinking Water Regulations 2025

A water supplier must specify an area that is supplied with drinking water by the water supplier to be a water sampling area for the purposes of the water supplier's risk management plan.

An area supplied with drinking water by a water supplier that is specified to be a water sampling locality under the Safe Drinking Water Regulations 2015 immediately before their revocation is, on and from that revocation, a water sampling area for the purposes of the water supplier's risk management plan as if the water supplier had specified that area to be a water sampling area under subregulation (1).

If a water supplier specifies a new water sampling area for the purposes of the water supplier's risk management plan, the water supplier must consider the following matters in determining the boundaries of that new water sampling area—

the source or sources of the water that will be supplied as drinking water in the water sampling area;

the drinking water treatment processes to be applied to water that will be supplied as drinking water in the water sampling area;

the distribution system that will be used to supply drinking water in the water sampling area.

Within 10 days after a water supplier specifies a new water sampling area for the purposes of the water supplier's risk management plan, the water supplier must—

give written notice to the Secretary of the new water sampling area, including—

how the boundaries of the new water sampling area have been determined; and

how the matters specified in subregulation (3) were considered in determining the boundaries of the new water sampling area; and

a clearly marked map of the boundaries of the new water sampling area; and

all information reasonably available to the water supplier that assists to identify the boundaries of the new water sampling area; and

update the water supplier's risk management plan to specify details of the new water sampling area.