UK Bathing Water Conference
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Every 2 years the UK holds a Bathing Waters Conference to discuss the challenges in preserving clean, safe and attractive beaches and bathing waters. This is managed and overseen by the UK Bathing Water Group which has representation from all devolved administrations and their associated environment agencies. The latest conference was hosted by DAERA and was held in Belfast at ‘The Assembly Buildings’, Fisherwick Place on 19-21 November 2019. Most presentations from the conference are available at the links below.
Documents
- Index of presentations from the workshop
- W1 Microbial Source Tracking Workshop –summary
- W2 Citizen science to policy change
- W3 Northern Ireland marine survey
- W4 Contact details for Mark Hartl (microplastics). Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh
- A2 Blue Flag and links with beaches
- A3 Management of Bathing Waters from A Northern Ireland Local Government perspective
- A6 Within-Day variability in faecal indicator organism (FIO) compliance parameters at UK
- A7 Enviro-leisure activism: cleaning your beach and enjoying it too.
- A8 Fighting the Unflushables: How can we engage society to prevent pollution from flushing
- B1a The Environment’s contribution to the antibiotic resistance crisis
- B1b The AREST project - Antimicrobial Resistance and the Environment
- B2 Kill or Cure – the scientific method behind the madness of sea swimming
- B3 Beach Sands and Microbial Pathogens
- B6 The ‘My Beach, Your Beach’ project
- B7 Collaborative Working at its Best – a Welsh Tale
- C1 The ‘Turning Tides’ programme; linking clean bathing water to physical activity and healthy
- C2 Oil slick management experience
- C3 Identification of microbiological bathing water risk
- C4 The Safer Seas Service
- C5 SWIM INTERREG
- C7 Environment Agency Pollution Risk Forecasting - 2019 update
- C8 Update on the WHO 2020 revision to bathing water guidelines
- C10 From Guinness Book of World Record Holders to International Pioneer; how a bathing water