Recommendation 19 a. Urgently take steps to implement the recommendations of the Havelock North Stagetwo Inquiry Report, including making the required legislative and regulatory changes and allocating sufficient resources to improving access to safe drinking water in New Zealand. b. Ensure that reforms to support the access to safe drinking water are consistent with the government’s commitment to Sustainable Development Goal 6 and international human rights standards, including the Committee’s General Comment No. 15 (2002) on the right to water and the Special Rapporteur on the human right to drinking water’s criteria against which to assess good practice relating to access to safe drinking water. c. Develop systematic data collection and reporting procedures on water quality in order to effectively inform relevant policies and the application of the right to access safe drinking water. Canterbury Earthquake Recovery ICESCR Art: 12 SDGs: 1 | 11 104. The Committee recommended at New Zealand’s last review that the government “adopt a human rights approach to reconstruction efforts, ensuring thereby appropriate consideration to availability, affordability and adequacy of housing, including for temporary housing”. 105. The 2010-11 earthquakes in Canterbury and the 2016 earthquakes in Kaikoura and corresponding recovery efforts have exposed a number of shortcomings in protecting the right to housing in New Zealand.142 Secondary stressors relating to unresolved insurance claims, faulty repairs and land compensation continue to have an ongoing impact on the mental health and wellbeing of people, in particular young people and children. Vulnerable people have been identified and there has been some good work in this area but problems remain around access to remedy and effective dispute resolution mechanisms. 106. The State has acknowledged that more than 3000 claims to the Earthquake Commission (“EQC”) remain outstanding. Concurrently, EQC has received over 8000 callbacks relating largely to missed damage or incorrect scope, or failure of repair strategy, for homes in its managed repair program. Approximately 520 claims are in litigation. 34