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Water Quality
These pages explain the importance of water quality in Canterbury, including how our drinking water quality and swimming water quality is measured and maintained.
Importance of water quality
In general the quality of Canterbury's groundwater and surface waters is extremely high. However, industrial, agricultural, and urban ..
Measuring water quality
Environment Canterbury has a legal responsibility to monitor the quality of groundwater and surface waters in the region. Find out why ..
Nitrates in water
This page explains the problems of too much nitrate appearing in our groundwater, and gives details of Environment Canterbury's ground ..
Groundwater
This page is about the groundwater of the Canterbury plains. ..
Fertigation backflow preventers
A best practices guide for owners and operators of irrigation systems. ..
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