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Sanitation: water testing

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Sanitation: water testing

Treatment and monitoring of public water supplies is an important public health function carried out by local government. Wellington Regional Council officers Fiona Lemmon (left) and Helen Sillers collect water samples from a bore in Lower Hutt in 1991 after a dead seagull was found in the pumping station tank.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1991/0038

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Kerryn Pollock, Public health – Environmental health, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/31364/sanitation-water-testing (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 18 April 2011, reviewed and revised 7 July 2019 with assistance from Richard Edwards.