Have you ever been at the coast and noticed a frothy foam at the water’s edge? From April to August, it’s fairly common to see these discoloured, sometimes creamy-looking and bad smelling foamy patches in the sea. You might think …
Our blog on 1 February explained how we approach monitoring, sampling and testing of bathing waters and our approach to keeping public informed and warned when there are short term risks of pollution which bathers would rightly want to be …
Helen Wakeham, Director of Water Transformation at the Environment Agency delivered a keynote speech today (25 January) at the annual Coastal Futures Conference in London. Here, Helen shares her thoughts on the history and future of our estuarine, coastal, and …
Our Area Environment Manager Rachael Caldwell looks at what we can all do to improve water quality over the festive season.
A look into the LOVEmyBEACH project.
We work hard at the Environment Agency to keep water clean for people to enjoy and rivers healthy for wildlife to thrive. Did you know there are simple things you can do too? Water UK has announced today that wet …
Turning Tides is a cross-agency partnership working together to do everything possible to improve the quality of bathing waters in North West England. Five years ago the partnership generated the LOVEmyBEACH campaign as a method to engage with the general …
We don’t offer spa treatments to the general public here in the Environment Agency, but we do provide the service to some local muscles (sorry, typo, ‘Mussels’). Once a year we send our intrepid officers out to chosen beaches to …
As I begin my tenure as Chair of the Environment Agency it is now, more than ever, that we need a bold new vision for the environment. Over the last 40 years EU legislation has helped shape and promote improvements …
There are over 400 bathing waters in England, and from 2016 water quality will be classified as either Excellent, Good, Sufficient or Poor, based upon regular samples and testing by the Environment Agency to check how clean the water is. …
