Hon EUGENIE SAGE (Green): E te Māngai o te Whare, tēnā koe. Clean, safe drinking water is a basic human right, but it's one which many people across the world and a significant number in Aotearoa New Zealand don't have access to. What this bill aims to do is to provide the regulatory framework to help correct that. There are approximately 1,400 community water suppliers in Aotearoa, and they vary from those neighbourhood suppliers servicing 25 to 100 people to municipal suppliers servicing more than 10,000 people. Fifty-three percent of drinking-water supplies rely on groundwater, 26 percent on surface water, and 21 percent on rainwater collection systems. 