Story: Water quality
Page 7. All images & media
From page 1 - Water quality in New Zealand
From page 2 - Water pollution
From page 3 - Problem plants and microbes
From page 4 - Lakes Rotorua and Taupō, and the Manawatū River
From page 5 - Management of water quality
How to cite this page
Mike Scarsbrook and Kit Rutherford, Water quality, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/1944/media (accessed 4 June 2026).
Story by Mike Scarsbrook and Kit Rutherford, published 1 March 2009, updated 18 July 2016.