Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 36975

Sewage: Water

Tabled: 10 March 2025
Answered: 17 April 2025

Question

Ben Maguire

Liberal DemocratNorth Cornwall

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has assessed the potential merits when sewage is released by water companies that poses a risk to human health of requiring (a) a physical warning system and (b)

Answer

Emma Hardy
Under the Bathing Water Regulations 2013, local authorities with a designated bathing water must actively disseminate and promptly make available to the public, in the near vicinity of the bathing water, a warning whenever short-term pollution is predicte...

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