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Indicator: Bathing water quality

A graph shows good and sufficient bathing water quality levels for coastal and inland waters (1992 to 2024). Bathing water quality increased significantly, especially in the 1990s. The target value of 100 % bathing waters with at least sufficient quality was almost reached in 2015 and has been constantly at a high level since then.

All bathing waters in the EU were supposed to be of at least sufficient quality by 2015.97.8 % of inland bathing waters had excellent water quality in 2024. With that the target has been missed only slightly.Considering only those bathing waters that were explicitly assessed, 99.6 % of the bathing waters met the requirements in 2024.About 91 % of inland waters and a good 88 % of coastal bathing wa... read more

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For our environment

The UBA’s motto, For our environment (“Für Mensch und Umwelt”), sums up our mission pretty well, we feel. In this video we give an insight into our work.

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