Improving inland bathing waters: why progress takes time
As bathing water designation has expanded to reflect the places where people now swim, paddle and enjoy the water recreationally, more inland sites are being formally recognised.
2025 Bathing Waters Classifications
The Environment Agency published the 2025 Bathing Water Classifications earlier today, Tuesday 25 November.
Environment Officer Joseph Holder explains how weekly beach walkovers and inspections are helping to improve Weston-super-Mare’s bathing water quality
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The Environment Agency conducts weekly sampling during the bathing water season, which spans from May to September. Across the UK, there are 424 designated bathing water sites, 49 of these sit within Wessex. Each one of these sites is …
Bathing water classifications and short-term pollution
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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 …
Help protect our beaches
Field Officer Ruth talks about our work sampling bathing water.
Better bathing water quality; better health and wellbeing
A look into the LOVEmyBEACH project.
Science behind the samples
Laboratory scientist, Sean, takes us through the science behind bathing water monitoring.
Sun, sea and samples
Lucy takes us through a day in the life of a bathing water sampler #WaterWarrior
Visiting the River Wharfe
The Chair of the Environment Agency, Emma Howard Boyd, visited the River Wharfe in Ilkley, Yorkshire, last week.
Update on bathing waters in England
Due to lockdown restrictions, the Environment Agency had to pause sampling at bathing waters for much of this year’s season to adhere with social distancing and to protect the safety of field, office and laboratory staff.