Sentence examples for beach waters from inspiring English sources

"It's all the water from the toilets and the showers and whatever people put down their sinks, all mixed up, and it's going out into the beach waters.

Meanwhile, Congress has not acted on legislation, under consideration for several years, that would require state and local governments to follow uniform standards and make public announcements whenever beach waters are polluted.

But budget constraints, staffing shortages and efforts by area health officials to adopt newly proposed Environmental Protection Agency testing standards aren't making it easy to keep up with the state-recommended weekly testing of bathing beach waters.

"It's all the water from the toilets and the showers and whatever people put down their sinks, all mixed up, and it's going out into the beach waters," John Griffith, a marine biologist at the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, who examined the AP tests, said.

Some states -- notably California, under a new state law -- are expanding their monitoring of beach waters and creating systems for letting the public know when the water is not safe, both by making announcements in the news media and by posting current data on the Web.

In 1986, criteria were developed based on data from beach waters that met a fecal coliform standard [ 21].

Too bad the beach water is a tad subprime.

And by next spring the E.P.A. expects to complete new guidelines for states on beach water quality.

The bill would require all coastal states to adopt uniform, health-based standards for beach water quality.

Despite its more serious budget problems, Nassau still does a more thorough job of monitoring beach water quality.

Nassau and Suffolk health officials test beach water samples for coliform bacteria, measuring the results against state criteria to determine whether they should consider closing beaches.