Bathing water quality is excellent at an increasing number of well-visited Swedish bathing sites where the water is regularly checked by the municipalities.
Sweden has 468 so-called EU baths, which have more than 200 bathers per day on average. Of these, 74 percent have excellent quality and nine out of ten have excellent, good, or satisfactory bathing water quality.
However, 18 Swedish EU baths have poor bathing water quality.
"For these baths, the municipality needs to investigate the sources of pollution and possible measures," says Ema Glad, investigator at the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, in a press release.
Bathing water quality is classified as poor if elevated bacterial levels have been noted at one or more occasions over the past four years.
There are approximately 2,600 bathing sites registered by the municipalities on the website Badplatsen. A growing share of them are becoming EU baths, which entails regular water checks and the results of the checks being displayed on signs at each bathing site.
