{"id":585030,"date":"2026-05-15T06:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585030\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T06:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:52:08","slug":"pollution-testing-to-start-at-two-popular-river-swimming-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585030\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollution testing to start at two popular river swimming spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kirsty Davies, community water quality manager at Surfers Against Sewage said the new bathing sites were proof of the huge demand for clean, safe water. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These communities have campaigned hard, and now we are watching closely to ensure regulators and polluters fulfil their responsibilities. Communities shouldn&#8217;t have to be the clean-up crew,&#8221; said Davies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But she said the government was still not doing enough and the proposed summer testing was insufficient.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Regulations are outdated and out of step with how people actually use the water. Sporadic summer monitoring is not enough and does not protect the year-round community of water users,.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The government can spin its plans all it likes, but the Clean Water Bill doesn&#8217;t come close to matching the scale of this crisis. It tinkers at the edges of a broken system.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirsty Davies, community water quality manager at Surfers Against Sewage said the new bathing sites were proof of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-585030","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\/585030","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=585030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}