00:00Making something an official bathing water site means it is given a greater priority.
00:05So, for example, the upgraded programme that water companies have to improve their storm overflows, to stop the sewage ending
00:12up in rivers, lakes and seas.
00:13The areas they prioritise to work first are bathing waters, chalk streams, sites of scientific interest.
00:19So they'll be prioritised. And it also means that around where there's a bathing water, there are different rules in
00:26terms of farmers to help reduce agriculture pollution.
00:28So it gives them sort of a special status when they're a designated bathing site.
