From SEPA today:
In 2024 98% of Scotland’s bathing waters will again meet, or exceed, the Sufficient classification – with 84% achieving the higher standards of Excellent or Good. A full list of results is at the foot of this email.
This long-term positive trend for Scottish bathing water quality has been demonstrated in sampling and analysis carried out by Scotland’s environment regulator over the summer.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) work with regulated operators and stakeholders across the country and have driven millions of pounds of investment to bring about changes needed to make our bathing waters a success story.
For the 2024 bathing season Scotland’s bathing water classifications will be:
- 38 (43%) Excellent
- 37 (42%) Good
- 12 (13%) Sufficient
- 2 (2%) Poor
The two bathing waters with a Poor classification, Kinghorn (Harbour Beach) and Lower Largo, both have ongoing improvement plans in place.
https://media.sepa.org.uk/media-releases/2023/98-of-scottish-bathing-waters-continue-to-meet-strict-environmental-standards/
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
We know we have to keep the water clean it’s what goes into our whisky
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Yes indeed, but the problem is that a foreign exploitative state needs the same water to cool the pumps in their power plants in our country to provide them with the energy they don’t have because they don’t have the resources to do it themselves.
More molevlantly, they DO have the ability to replicate what they’re doing here in their own country, but they choose to cover our country in their energy producing wind farms at our expence.
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Where is the 2%IN ABERDEEN AREA WHERE ROSS AN HIS TOADIES ARE IN POWER
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Ah, so this is why there was another reporting Scotland attempt to smear water pollution.
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This report – see below – about England’s bathing waters may have prompted Reporting Scotland to report on this subject tonight with its usual intention of showing things are just as bad in Scotland. Except by any measure it is no where near as bad
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/21/most-inland-bathing-spots-in-uk-have-unsafe-levels-of-pollution-report-finds
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I believe they also gave a figure that covered a period of five years and not the annual figure, to make the amount of spillages higher.
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Yes they did indeed. It worked out about 11,000 or so per year and one of the people interviewed that many of those spillages did not contain sewage but were the result of run-off due to rain.
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It’s surprising how few of the public realise the number of surface water discharges (roads, etc.) vastly exceed the number of CSOs, not helped in the slightest by propagandists peddling the “raw sewage” and “hours of discharge” and “Olympic swimming pool” yardsticks by which to turn an engineering issue into a political football.
The true test of environmental impact is effect, and that is what Sepa have done before devolution and have continued to do so since….
Facts from the horse’s mouth are infinitely preferable to the other end of the horse, James Cook, ACH-him, etc etc…
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Although Reporting Scotland might have had a piece on water pollution in Scotland, there is nothing on the BBC Scotland website about water.
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It’s a favoured propaganda tactic, “I’d heard about..” X but there’s no written trace…
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Off topic heads up – the BBC are running a piece on the terrible levels of measles vaccination in the UK – around 85% apparantly. In Scotland I am sure it is higher at around 95% which would indicate the English rates are even lower than as advertised by ‘our’ BBC. Scottish competence and success traduced to British mediocrity once more.
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I am surprised the rate for UK s as high as 85%. Some areas of England have vax rates of less than 60%. I think London has one of the lowest rates so if the UK rate is 85% it is due to the high rates in the other nations of the UK.
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The WHO confirmed that the UK achieved elimination status for rubella in 2016. After briefly achieving measles elimination in 2016 and 2017, since 2018 the UK has re-established transmission of measles virus. See Tables 1 and 2.25 Oct 2022
https://www.gov.uk › publications
UK measles and rubella elimination indicators and status – GOV.UK
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English-accented tiny surfer club spokesperson beefing about a total non- problem- ‘found’ by Beeb correspondent to insinuate that we’re all in it together(the English shit-show,that is) when we’re patently not!
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