SECTORAL POLICIES / Environment

More than 80% of Europe’s bathing waters are of excellent quality, according to EEA

Brussels, 01/06/2021 (Agence Europe)

Almost 83% of European bathing sites meet the EU’s strictest water quality standards, says a new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) published on Tuesday 1 June.

The EEA report, which analysed 22,276 bathing sites across the EU Member States, Albania and Switzerland throughout 2020, shows that 92.6% of the sites monitored met the EU minimum standards in this area.

Only 296 bathing sites, i.e. 1.3% of the sites monitored, had poor water quality, compared with 1.4% in 2019 and...