The country stands out for the quality of water of its beaches and inland bathing areas.
This year, the annual report on the quality of coastal bathing areas and freshwater, reported by the Member States of the European Union, prepared by the European Environment Agency (EEA), in cooperation with the European Commission DG Environment, congratulates Portugal for the water quality of the national beaches.
The report assessed the quality of bathing water in all 28 Member States of the EU, Albania and Switzerland of the previous season of 2015. The document indicates several areas where it is expected that the quality of bathing water is good this year, Portugal stood out because 94% of bathing water is of good or excellent quality. A very positive statistic given that only in our country this year there are 71 beaches with zero pollution, as reported earlier by our magazine. The EEA put even a post on its Facebook and it became viral registering thousands of 'likes' and more than 2,300 shares, and comments of several Portuguese, as well as foreign citizens.
More information on water quality in Portugal and other European countries: http://www.eea.europa.eu/.../sta.../state-of-bathing-water/state
