Story: Water quality

More links and websites

• 
  Microbiological water quality guidelines
  

  These guidelines from the Ministry for the
  Environment are for marine and freshwater
  recreational areas.

• 
  OECD Environment performance review of New Zealand
  (2007)
  

  During 2005–6 the OECD reviewed New Zealand’s
  sustainable development and environmental
  management, including water and waste
  management.

• 
  Sustainable water programme of action
  

  This page outlines the government plan to
  maintain fresh water quality.

• Water Programme of Action: The effects of rural land use on water quality
  

  This page on the Ministry for the Environment
  site links to information on riparian management, dairying and organics.

More suggestions and sources

• Roy, Bruce, and others. An illustrated guide
  to common weeds of New Zealand. Lincoln: New
  Zealand Plant Protection Society, 1998.