{"id":222496,"date":"2026-07-07T07:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/how-europe-made-most-but-not-all-of-its-swimming-waters-excellent\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T07:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:49:01","slug":"how-europe-made-most-but-not-all-of-its-swimming-waters-excellent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/how-europe-made-most-but-not-all-of-its-swimming-waters-excellent\/","title":{"rendered":"How Europe made most, but not all, of its swimming waters ‘excellent’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Planning a swim this summer? Chances are you’ll be diving into clean water. A new European Environment Agency report shows that 96 percent of monitored bathing sites across the EU meet minimum health standards, with nearly 85 percent rated “excellent”. But why are some swimming spots still unsafe?<\/p>\n

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Planning a swim this summer? Chances are you’ll be diving into clean water. A new European Environment Agency report shows that 96 percent of monitored bathing sites across the EU meet minimum health standards, with nearly 85 percent rated “excellent”. But why are some swimming spots still unsafe? Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":222497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}