Simple steps to minimise the effects of infectious substances on water quality and mahinga kai.
- Reduce nutrients and contaminants from entering waterways by fencing waterways, planting riparian margins, and maintaining and incorporating vegetated swales and constructed wetlands.
- Recover and reuse spilled raw materials and products.
- Minimise pollution of receiving waterways through effective primary, secondary, and tertiary treatment of raw sewage.
- Divert runoff of faecal material from farm tracks to traps and fields.