Dear Ministry of Health,

This is an Official Information Act request relating to directions issued by the Director-General of Health to Drinking Water Assessors.

At a Christchurch City Council meeting on 29 August 2019, a council employee stated that the Director-General had instructed Christchurch's Drinking Water Assessors not to sign-off on any alterations to the city's bore-heads. I would like to find out whether such a direction was issued, what the reasons for it were, and whether similar instructions were issued to Drinking Water Assessors elsewhere in the country.

With this in mind, I request any formal correspondence, such as directions or guidance notes (but not day-to-day email correspondence) between the Director-General of Health and Drinking Water Assessors since August 2016.

If this covers too many documents, or too few, I would be more than willing to modify my request. Thank you!

Yours faithfully,

James Adams

Dear Ministry of Health,

Thank you for your responses to my recent Official Information Act requests. I am grateful for the time that you have put into answering my queries, and I am satisfied with the information I have received.

Yours faithfully,

James Adams