{"id":184850,"date":"2025-10-08T06:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/184850\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:42:08","slug":"bathing-water-bid-aims-to-improve-water-quality-of-river-avon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/184850\/","title":{"rendered":"Bathing water bid aims to improve water quality of River Avon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Di Cross from Extinction Rebellion Salisbury said this was a &#8220;major health issue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After an area is given bathing water status, the EA will regularly test the water and the results are made public. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Cross said this meant &#8220;everybody using the water can have some idea as to whether its safe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;This designation will force the EA to keep an eye on what is going on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Cross said pollution also affected animals and habitat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Salisbury is renowned for its five rivers, the chalk streams, we have some of the rarest habitats in the world &#8211; we should be looking after them,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Di Cross from Extinction Rebellion Salisbury said this was a &#8220;major health issue&#8221;. After an area is given&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-184850","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\/184850","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=184850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}