Sewage: Water
Commons · Question 36975 · Tabled 10 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 17 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Ben Maguire
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
Answered by Emma Hardy, 17 Apr 2025
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...