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Rotorua Lakes Council will close midday Friday 20 Dec 2024 and reopen Monday 6 Jan 2025. Building services & LIMs are on hold until 10 Jan 2025. Visit our Property & Building section for more information.

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Drinking Water

Rotorua has 10 municipal water supplies providing fresh water to our homes and businesses, all compliant with national drinking water standards and most coming from springs and bores.

Council is responsible for providing potable (drinking) water to:

  • Rotorua's urban areas
  • The rural communities of Mamaku, Rotoiti, Rotomā, Kaharoa, Reporoa, Hamurana and Ōkāreka.

Rotorua Lakes Council Environmental Laboratory

The Council Laboratory provides a measurement service offering timely analysis for drinking (potable) water, wastewater and environmental water for public health, industrial/resource consent monitoring needs or simply for peace of mind.

Read more about Council's Environmental Laboratory

Karamu Takina Springs is the source of the Rotorua Central water supply.

About Rotorua's award-winning tap water

In May 2024, Rotorua won 'best tasting tap water in the country', according to the judges of 2024's IXOM National Water Taste Test. The competition compares the taste, odour and appearance of water samples submitted by water authorities around New Zealand.

Download 'Te Waiora - the life-giving waters' poster - JPG, 3.1MB

Te Waiora - the life-giving waters

Check out this downloadable poster from Water New Zealand, highlighting the water cycle with illustrations and te reo Māori.

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