Bathing Water Directive 76 160 EEC, 2006 7 EC

The 1976 Bathing Directive is one of the oldest pieces of environmental legislation in Europe.

Similarly, if a country plans to support tourism as a key activity, the protection of drinking water (Drinking Water Directive) and of bathing water (Bathing Water Directive) should be a priority.

Box 2 Improvement of water quality from implementing the Bathing Water Directive

Swimming

The Nitrates Directive is highly relevant for the control of water pollution from diffuse agricultural sources.

For ENP partner countries with coastal waters, the Marine Strategy could serve as a potential model.

The water's warm enough for a swim.

The main instruments of the Bathing Directive are water quality standards for bathing water, monitoring requirements, reporting requirements and requirements for measures to ensure compliance with the standards.

Legislation similar to the Bathing Water Directive could improve the quality of freshwater bodies and coastal waters.

EEA list includes also idicators of Bathing water quality and Chlorophyll in transitional coastal and marine waters.

This cold water is for bathing and for drinking.

(A spring of gushed forth when he struck the earth this was a miracle.)

This is a laving place cool, and a drink.'

This (spring) is a cool bath and a refreshing drink.

The park has a swimming area equipped with changing cabins.

Improving the quality of bathing water can alleviate public health problems and improve recreation for the local population, while also making a region more attractive for tourism.

As evident in this slide from Lake Nabugabo in Uganda, the agricultural runoff from this crop, which goes into these buckets, is the sole source of drinking, cooking and bathing water for this village.

How about taking a swim, a moonlight swim at the old rock quarry?

While the 1976 Bathing Directive required the monitoring of 19 parameters, the new Directive reduced this list to just two microbiological indicators of faecal contamination, E. Coli and Intestinal Enterococci. This reflects the fact that faecal material, for instance due to inadequate sewage treatment and pollution from animal waste, is the primary health threat to bathers, and that all other relevant pollutants are monitored under the WFD.

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Today it is a popular recreation site, for both boating and swimming.

Go swiftly to the spring, (We said).

We said to him, Strike the earth with your foot this cool spring is for bathing and drinking.

'Stamp thy foot!

Stamp the ground with thy foot. yonder is water to wash in, cool, and water to drink.

(Allah said to him) Strike the ground with your foot This is a spring of water to wash in, cool and a (refreshing) drink.

Stamp with your foot here is cool water to wash with, and to drink.

(We commanded him) Stamp your foot on earth, and here is cool water to wash with and to drink.

(And it was said unto him) Strike the ground with thy foot.

What kind of bathing without charge?

The general objective of EU legislation on bathing water has been to ensure the good quality of bathing water, both freshwater and coastal water, over time.

4.1 Access to Information Directive 4.2 Reporting Directive

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I am tired after swimming in that river.

I am tired after swimming in that river.

I had a leg cramp when swimming.

For the electricity, for water!

If these requirements are not fulfilled, the landfills have to be shut down. The Landfill Directive establishes three categories of landfills that need to comply with different requirements

Introduction IPPC Directive as a horizontal instrument for emission abatement

EC Directive, article 10.01(7).

EC Directive, article 10.01(7).

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