88.4 per cent of the 257 baths that were tested in Hungary met the required minimum. According to the report, 7.8 per cent of the cases did not have enough data to be able to be qualified.
European Committee: water of 10 Hungarian baths has low quality!
The European Commission and the European Environmental Agency have reported that more than two-thirds of the Hungarian baths have high-quality water. However, there are ten with bad quality water.
The Commission and the Agency published their annual report on Monday. They tested 22,295 baths in the whole of Europe in 2019, 95 per cent of which passed the minimum quality requirements set by EU legislation, reported hvg.hu.
According to the findings, seaside baths have better quality water generally, then continental ones.
1.3 per cent of the water in the tested baths in the European Union, the UK, Albania and Switzerland were deemed low-quality last year, which is the same result as in 2018.
In Hungary, 3.9 per cent, that is ten baths, did not meet the requirements, which is higher than 2018’s 3.2 per cent.
An interactive map, which you can view here, also shows the quality of the baths. The waters of the Tuzsér Free Beach, the Vásárosnamény-Gergelyiugornya Free Beach on River Tisza, the Pócsmegyer Pázsit Lake, the Makó Maros Adventure Beach, the Tiszasziget Lake, the Felsőgöd Beach, the Dánfok Free Beach, the Sziksósfürdő Naturist Beach and Camping, the Itató and Moson were found low quality, as the map shows.
The number of baths with an “excellent” qualification did not fall back much as compared to 2018. In Europe, the percentage dropped from 84.9 to 84.6 per cent, while in Hungary it was 72.3 per cent in 2018 and 70.8 per cent last year.
In 2018 95.2 per cent of baths met the required minimum in Europe, and 88.9 per cent in Hungary, while in 2019 the numbers decreased to 94.9 per cent in Europe and 88.4 per cent in Hungary.
