What ‘Local Water Done Well’ means for us

Your drinking water, wastewater and stormwater delivery services are staying in-house following a Council decision on 27 May 2025. 

Under the Government’s Local Water Done Well policy, we were required to consider changes to the way water services are delivered in our district and consult with our community on two options.

Our current arrangements have served us well and we have decided to keep these services in-house (option 1) but with changes like ring-fencing our water services from the rest of council business to meet the new regulatory requirements.

Water Services Delivery Plan

Under the Government’s Local Water Done Well policy, Council was required to submit a Water Services Delivery Plan (WDSP) to the Department of Internal Affairs in September 2025. The WDSP shows how we will achieve financial sustainability by 1 July 2028 and meet new regulatory and reporting requirements. 

Next steps 

We are working to put arrangements in place to transition our water, wastewater, stormwater delivery services to a stand-alone internal business unit by 1 July 2027. This involves ring-fencing our water services from the rest of council business to meet new regulatory requirements.

Our track record

In Kāpiti we've invested a lot in our water management, security and infrastructure for our community and the environment. Find out how our water supply works. 

Our council (and you, our community) own our water-related assets, which together have a value of $499 million (30 June 2024). 

Because of our past and ongoing investment in our water assets, we're positioned well for the future. A 2018 Auditor-General’s report, Managing the supply of and demand for drinking water, found we're setting a good example with our future-focused approach to supplying drinking water. 

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