Drowning is the highest cause of recreational death and forth highest cause of accidental death in New Zealand. We still had one of the highest drowning rates in the OECD, ranked 8th, almost double that of Australia, and five times that of the UK.
In 2020 the Water Safety Sector Strategy was implemented, a joint effort from a variety of water safety organizations in the community with the goal of reducing the water deaths in New Zealand over the next five years.
2021 began
