Water: Standards

(asked on 5th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Environment Agency's water quality monitoring programme, what number of (a) samples have been taken and (b) sampling points there have been in (i) each year since 2010 and (ii) each month since January 2020.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 11th May 2020

The table below shows the number of water quality samples taken by the Environment Agency, and the number of sample points, in each year since 2010:

Year

No. samples taken

No. sample points

2010

131602

18079

2011

137251

17286

2012

155394

16790

2013

159737

18498

2014

135452

17962

2015

121755

16088

2016

111951

15428

2017

94879

15335

2018

86737

13086

2019

97587

14439

The table below shows the number of water quality samples taken, and the number of sample points, in each month since January 2020:

Month

No. samples taken

No. sample points

January

9475

8175

February

7740

6612

March

7196

6189

Data for April is not yet available.

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