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The bathing season is halfway over, but the comings and goings of advisories and bans on Portuguese beaches, usually associated with microbiological issues, have already made 2024 the second-worst year of the last seven in terms of beach pollution. There were 84 episodes of bathing advisories and bans on bathing beaches in mainland Portugal up to 7 August, according to the annual data made available to PÚBLICO since 2018 by the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA). This figure is just below the 94 cases of 2022 and can easily be surpassed in the coming weeks, making it possible to achieve a recent record for this year.

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Source: Público; Image: Denis Oliveira via Unsplash.

Two experimental sensor systems are assessing the water quality of two Portuguese beaches at a microbiological level, in an international project responsible for monitoring the River Seine tributaries during the Paris Olympics and the Seine itself before the games began.

The experiment, coordinated in Portugal by the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS) at the University of Porto, aims to test not only the technology's ability to analyze the presence of bacteria accurately but also its ability to analyze the presence of the bacteria Escherichia coli in real-time, but also, based on this information, the technology's ability to predict the evolution of the presence of these bacteria in the following hours, as is done in meteorology.

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Source: Público; Image: Gary Walker-Jones via Unsplash.