The bathing water season in Scotland is 1st June to mid September.
This section demonstrates SEPA's commitment to providing comprehensive information on the quality of Scotland's bathing waters. As well as containing SEPA's Annual Bathing Water reports and regularly-updated monitoring results for identified and non-identified waters, the section contains information on new initiatives aimed at promoting better bathing water quality in Scotland. This is intended to inform discussion and raise awareness of the future management of Scotland's coastal and inland bathing waters.
SEPA is committed to achieving full compliance with EC Bathing Water Directive standards (SEPA Corporate Plan 2005) and is working closely with others to deliver a reduction in risk from both urban and rural sources of pollution. Some of the key partners that SEPA is working with include the Scottish Executive, Scottish Water, Local Authorities, Non-Governmental Organisations and the agricultural community, as identified in the Scottish Executive Bathing Water Strategy (March 2006). The people of Scotland, and visitors to our country, are entitled to expect the quality of bathing water to meet European standards and to be clean and safe. SEPA is playing its part in delivering the required improvements and in fulfilling the role identified for it by the Scottish Executive in its Bathing Water Strategy.
In March 2006 the revised Bathing Water Directive (2006/7/EC) entered into force and will be enacted in the UK by Regulations by March 2008. Key features are tighter microbiological standards to be met by 2015 with monitoring commenced by 2012, and increased provision of public information. The full text of the new Directive can be found here.
