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name: drinking-water-register-nz description: "Query public Hinekōrako drinking-water supplier, supply, service-area and document records. Use for registration discovery; registration is not proof of current water safety." license: MIT compatibility: "Requires Python 3.10+ and network access for live data" metadata: thecolab.category: "environment" thecolab.source_owner: "Taumata Arowai" thecolab.source_type: "official" thecolab.auth: "none" thecolab.access_mode: "html-readonly" thecolab.data_class: "public" thecolab.writes: "false" thecolab.browser: "false" thecolab.risk: "medium" thecolab.cache_ttl: "24h" thecolab.schema_version: "1" thecolab.skill_type: "html-readonly" thecolab.pack: "nz-public-data" thecolab.source_url: "https://hinekorako.taumataarowai.govt.nz/publicregister/supplies/" thecolab.allowed_domains: "hinekorako.taumataarowai.govt.nz" thecolab.last_verified: "2026-07-19" thecolab.health: "degraded" thecolab.maintainer: "@adam91holt"

Drinking Water Register NZ

Use the read-only Python CLI to retrieve and filter records exposed by the official first-party source. Every command supports --json, bounded requests, stable exit codes, source URLs and retrieval timestamps.

Commands

# search registered suppliers
python3 scripts/cli.py supplier QUERY --json
# search supplies
python3 scripts/cli.py supply ID_OR_NAME --json
# filter by region
python3 scripts/cli.py region NAME --json
# discover nearby records where official location data permit
python3 scripts/cli.py near --lat VALUE --lon VALUE --json
# discover public documents
python3 scripts/cli.py documents ID --json

Add --limit N (1–100) to bound any command. Human output is the default.

Coverage and interpretation

• Registration is not proof of current potability or compliance.
• Missing public documents do not prove non-compliance.
• Suppression, privacy and small-supply publication limits are preserved.

The CLI uses the same public Power Pages grid and read-only detail pages as the official register. Supply results include the public ID, name, type, community and canonical detail URL; exact ID lookup adds registration status, population, region, authority and published documents where present. documents requires an exact case-insensitive supply ID or name, returns a stable document-only record (including an empty document list where none are published), and returns no records for fuzzy-only matches. near is an explicit unsupported operation because the register does not expose reliable public coordinates or service-area geometry.

Resources

• scripts/cli.py — canonical command entrypoint
• scripts/test_contract.py — deterministic repository contract audit
• scripts/smoke_test.py — parser fixture and bounded live probe
• tests/fixtures/grid.json and supply-detail.html — representative public-register fixtures
• references/source-notes.md — feasibility, provenance and source limits