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Bathing water quality
Bathing water quality | European Environment Agency's home pageRelated contentReferences and footnotes ...
4 Dec 2024
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Lake water quality
Lake water quality is vital to understanding not only the quality of the water in the lake, but also changes in land use as well as water chemistry, temperature and quality of contributing streams and ... It is of critical importance to aquatic ecology, and often to water supply. Changes to optical properties can indicate the influence of land use change, changes in water quality. ... The Copernicus services produce several water quality related products: · Turbidity (water clarity); · Trophic state index based on chlorophyll-a; · Lake surface reflectances measuring ...
27 Aug 2024
Topics: Various other issues
European bathing water quality (Indicator)
Key messages: Bathing is safe in most of the EU’s bathing waters.In 2023, 85% of bathing waters in the EU were rated excellent and minimum water quality standards for compliance with the Bathing Water ... Directive were met in 96% of EU’s bathing waters. 1.5% of the EU’s bathing waters were still of poor quality, indicating that management measures are not always adequate or in place. ...
3 Mar 2025
Topics: Bathing water quality, Environmental health impacts, Water
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Waterbase - Water Quality ICM
Waterbase is the generic name given to the EEA's databases on the status and quality of Europe's rivers, lakes, groundwater bodies and transitional, coastal and marine waters, on the quantity of Europe's ... water resources, and on the emissions to surface waters from point and diffuse sources of pollution. ...
12 Jul 2024
Topics: Water, Chemicals, Pollution
Interview – Safeguarding water quality in Austria
Good-quality water is a matter of pride for many Austrians. ... From flood prevention to competing demands from different users, we spoke about water challenges and management with Monika Mörth, Director General for Water Management from the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture ... , Forestry, Regions and Water Management. ...
4 Dec 2024
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European bathing water quality in 2023
From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, most of Europe’s bathing waters are of excellent quality for swimming when assessed against the two specific health relevant parameters (Escherichia coli – or E. ... coli – and intestinal enterococci) as required under the Bathing Water Directive (EU, 2006). ... This briefing provides information on the quality of Europe’s bathing waters, and is complemented by a map viewer to help citizens take informed decisions on where to bathe. ...
28 May 2024
Topics: Bathing water quality, Water
Slovenia bathing water quality 2023
May 2024 Bathing water country factsheet © F ra nc es co M un do , E EA Slovenia Bathing water quality in the season of 2023 Slovenia Under the provisions of the Bathing Water Directive ... The monitoring data and other information regarding bathing water management are reported to the European Environment Agency by 29 reporting countries in Europe, to be assessed for the annual European ... BWD reporting in the season of 2023 The bathing waters are quality classified according to the two microbiological parameters (Escherichia coli and intestinal enterococci) defined in the Bathing ...
27 May 2024
Topics: Bathing water quality
Slovakia bathing water quality 2023
May 2024 Bathing water country factsheet © F ra nc es co M un do , E EA Slovakia Bathing water quality in the season of 2023 Slovakia Under the provisions of the Bathing Water Directive ... The monitoring data and other information regarding bathing water management are reported to the European Environment Agency by 29 reporting countries in Europe, to be assessed for the annual European ... BWD reporting in the season of 2023 The bathing waters are quality classified according to the two microbiological parameters (Escherichia coli and intestinal enterococci) defined in the Bathing ...
27 May 2024
Topics: Bathing water quality
Romania bathing water quality 2023
May 2024 Bathing water country factsheet © F ra nc es co M un do , E EA Romania Bathing water quality in the season of 2023 Romania Under the provisions of the Bathing Water Directive, ... The monitoring data and other information regarding bathing water management are reported to the European Environment Agency by 29 reporting countries in Europe, to be assessed for the annual European ... BWD reporting in the season of 2023 The bathing waters are quality classified according to the two microbiological parameters (Escherichia coli and intestinal enterococci) defined in the Bathing ...
27 May 2024
Topics: Bathing water quality
Portugal bathing water quality 2023
May 2024 Bathing water country factsheet © F ra nc es co M un do , E EA Portugal Bathing water quality in the season of 2023 Portugal Under the provisions of the Bathing Water Directive ... The monitoring data and other information regarding bathing water management are reported to the European Environment Agency by 29 reporting countries in Europe, to be assessed for the annual European ... BWD reporting in the season of 2023 The bathing waters are quality classified according to the two microbiological parameters (Escherichia coli and intestinal enterococci) defined in the Bathing ...
27 May 2024
Topics: Bathing water quality