Croatia again top of Europe's water quality list

Swimming water in Croatia is at the top of the European list when it comes to quality. Croatian beaches, rivers and lakes, together with Cyprus, Malta and Greece is of excellent quality at more than 90 per cent of its sites, at the other end of the scale, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Latvia, Luxembourg and Belgium have a relatively low proportion of sites with quality swimming water, according to the latest report report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) announced on Wednesday in Brussels. The report, which refers to more than 22,000 beaches, rivers and lakes across Europe, states that 92.1 per cent of swimming waters in the European Union meets the minimum quality standards prescribed by the directive on swimming waters. / more