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A2.5      Information dissemination

Whereas up-to-date information about bathing water is available to the public at the bathing sites, through the media, in reports and through data viewers, data on drinking water are frequently not up to date and can be difficult to understand. Most Member States do not use comprehensive maps or other published public reports, except a yearly report on national drinking water quality. This makes it difficult to provide the public with updated EU-wide information on drinking water policy and quality on a regular basis. In addition, countries monitor, process and report data in different ways across the EU. That makes it difficult to compare the performance of different Member States and their compliance with the directive. A revision of the directive is now in progress. It is updating the monitoring requirements and methods of analysing drinking water quality parameters (Annexes II and III; DWD). Furthermore, the digital reporting is planned to be further revised and harmonised, based on the lessons learned from the reporting exercise for 2011–2013.