{"id":16174,"date":"2025-07-22T19:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/16174\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T19:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:15:13","slug":"devon-swimmers-call-for-real-time-testing-of-bathing-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/16174\/","title":{"rendered":"Devon swimmers call for real-time testing of bathing waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A growing number of community groups are also carrying out their own tests at sites popular with swimmers and other water users, including on the River Teign in Devon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People are worried about sewage in the river,&#8221; Stuart Reynolds, from the Friends of the River Teign (Fort) group, said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group has been using a real-time device that can indicate levels of pollution. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Most of the time the river is clean, but people need to know when it&#8217;s not. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re looking at ways that will hopefully provide us with that information, where people could pick up on their phone, straight away,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A growing number of community groups are also carrying out their own tests at sites popular with swimmers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-16174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}