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Measuring water quality

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Measuring water quality

Checking water quality often involves measuring a number of factors that are not immediately obvious to an observer. However, in this case an Auckland Regional Council staff member is sampling a stream to determine what has caused this dramatic change in colour.

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Mike Scarsbrook and Kit Rutherford, Water quality – Management of water quality, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15535/measuring-water-quality (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Mike Scarsbrook and Kit Rutherford, published 1 March 2009, updated 18 July 2016.