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The most comprehensive river testing of bathing waters in the UK has shown they contain a cocktail of potentially harmful chemicals and bacteria.

Watershed Investigations used volunteers to test 23 rivers and lakes used for swimming, twice a day, every day for a week.

The Environment Agency tests for two types of bacteria including E.coli but Watershed’s testing also looked for a number of pollutants

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