Delivering Healthy Water is a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funded project that promotes the exchange of knowledge and information between science providers & users and the public with regard to advantages and limitations of different tools for regulatory monitoring of bathing waters.
Water regulators are now in an exciting transition period with new techniques borne out of the 'molecular revolution' beginning to offer a means of characterising microbial watercourse pollution that challenge 'tried & tested' culture-based reference methods. However, exisiting policy frameworks for ambient microbial water quality standards around the world are based on culture-based approaches that are underpinned by rigerous science, reproducability of results and an epidemiological evidence-base.
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