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Kōrero: Water quality

Wainuiomata toilet

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Wainuiomata toilet

The Last Chance Toilet is at Wainuiomata, near Wellington. Preventing human waste entering waterways in National Parks is an important way to stop the spread of disease and the contamination of drinking water.

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

Reference: EP/1993/0376/13a

by Ross Giblin

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Mike Scarsbrook rāua ko Kit Rutherford, Water quality – Problem plants and microbes, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/15525/wainuiomata-toilet (accessed 4 June 2026).

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