Croatian bathing water quality best in Europe!

Eurostat (European Statistical Office), the Directorate-General of the European Commission, released data on July 4, 2022, revealing the bathing sites with excellent water quality by locality in the European Union. The data was taken from the European Environment Agency (EEA).

“The indicator measures the number and proportion of coastal and inland bathing sites with excellent water quality. The indicator assessment is based on microbiological parameters (intestinal enterococci and Escherichia coli). The new Bathing Water Directive requires the Member States to identify and assess the quality of all inland and marine bathing waters and to classify these waters as poor, sufficient, good or excellent”.

Looking at 27 European Union countries, excluding the landlocked Czech Republic, Luxemburg, Hungary, Austria, and Slovakia, Croatia tops the list, recording bathing sites with an impressively high water quality of 99.2% in 2021.

Let`s take a look at the results:

1. CROATIA – 99.2
2. MALTA 96.6
3. GREECE 95.8
4. SLOVENIA 95.2
5. SPAIN 94.9

At the end of the list, you can see:

• POLAND 43.5
• ESTONIA 53.3
• FINLAND 66.7
• SWEDEN 73.2
• LATVIA 75.0

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