136Drinking water compliance, monitoring, and enforcement strategy

1. The board of the Water Services Authority must prepare a drinking water compliance, monitoring, and enforcement strategy.

2. The board must review the strategy at least every 3 years.

3. The board may amend the strategy at any time.

4. The board may delegate to the chief executive the functions of preparing and amending the strategy.

5. The purpose of the strategy is to—

6. provide transparency about the Water Services Authority’s intended approach to achieving compliance with drinking water regulatory requirements over a 3-year period, and the outcomes sought from that approach; and
7. provide the basis on which the Water Services Authority is accountable for the performance of its regulatory functions and the use of its regulatory powers.

8. The strategy must include the Water Services Authority’s intended approach to—

9. performing the functions in section 32(1); and
10. achieving and enforcing compliance with drinking water legislation and standards, including how the Water Services Authority intends to—
    1. support drinking water suppliers of different types, sizes, and abilities to build and maintain capability to comply with their regulatory responsibilities; and
    2. target its activities and prioritise its resources to focus on the suppliers, supplies, or practices that pose the greatest risk to drinking water safety; and
    3. perform its regulatory functions and apply its regulatory powers; and
11. exemptions issued under sections 57 and 58.

12. Without limiting subsection (6), the strategy must include information about how the Water Services Authority’s intended approach applies to a mixed-use rural water scheme.

13. The chief executive must have regard to the strategy when performing the chief executive’s functions.

14. The Water Services Authority must ensure that the strategy is published in accordance with section 205.