A record 73% of beaches in
the UK have “excellent” water quality because of last summer's dry weather,
according to the Marine Conservation Society.
Researchers
said the lack of rain caused less pollution to filter down from towns and
cities to the coasts.
In
its annual Good Beach Guide, published on Tuesday, MCS says 538 of 734 UK
beaches tested between May and September 2013 reached the top standard for
water quality. It is 135 more than the previous year.
This is total BS and hopelessly out of date.
What’s the point of producing a report that says six
months ago, before one of the wettest winters on record, we found that the
quality of water at the majority of Britain’s beaches is actually quite good because of the lack of rain.
It’d be like an estate agent trying to sell a house
in Pompeii and saying to the prospective buyer, yes I know it’s all covered in
volcanic ash now but a few months ago it was quite lovely.
This Good Beach Guide should be reduced to one sheet
of paper and on that sheet of paper it should say don’t go to the beach anywhere
in Britain the water is cold and brown and the sand is covered in dog shit and
other peoples rubbish, go abroad the beaches are much nicer there. Apart from
in Cornwall I grant you the beaches are excellent there.
Despite that small qualifier I’m afraid this story
is a pyramid of piffle from the pr department at the Marine Conservation
Society and should be ignored.
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