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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8955
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment

Quality of EU bathing water is generally good but could be improved on coasts - slight deterioration of fresh water

Brussels, 26/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - Not unlike previous years, as the good weather approaches, the European Commission has just published its annual report on the quality of bathing water of the previous bathing season. The 2005 report (2004 bathing season) was good overall. In an epoch of bacterial and physicochemical criteria of the 76/160/ECC directive, generally speaking bathing water quality is good across the EU compared to the previous season with 96.7% of coastal sites meeting...

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