Quality of inland bathing water in Europe improves

Citation

(2007), "Quality of inland bathing water in Europe improves", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 18 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2007.08318fab.004

Quality of inland bathing water in Europe improves

Water quality at the European Union inland bathing waters improved slightly last year after a drop in 2005, new figures have revealed. The results for the EU’s 2006 bathing season show that compliance with mandatory standards at inland bathing sites rose by almost three percentage points to 88.6 per cent. The number of sites meeting the more stringent “guide” quality value also rose slightly.

The quality of inland sites still lags behind that of coastal waters. Compliance rates at coastal beaches remained stable at 96.1 per cent for mandatory standards and decreased slightly to 88.4 per cent for the guide values.