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 Democrat — North 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 HardyUnder 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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