New water quality standards are in place at bathing beaches – so what’s changed?

Posted by: Jonathan Ponting, Posted on: 22 August 2016 - Categories: Cleaner Seas, Community, tourism, Water

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. …