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Kōrero: Water quality

Clean drinking water

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Clean drinking water

Drinking water must be of the highest quality, and New Zealand has plentiful supplies. For example, Christchurch water is naturally filtered through the gravel beds and sand laid down by glaciers and rivers during the formation of the Canterbury Plains. This means that the water comes from the ground clear and ready to drink. Still, there is a steadily growing market in New Zealand for bottled water.

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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

by Marguerite Hill

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Mike Scarsbrook rāua ko Kit Rutherford, Water quality – Water quality in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/15515/clean-drinking-water (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Mike Scarsbrook rāua ko Kit Rutherford, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009, updated 18 July 2016.