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Sanitary Quality of the Adriatic Sea on the Croatian Coastal and Islands Area

Besides climate-related elements, geographic characteristics, tourist facilities and traffic, cleanness of the sea plays the decisive role in choosing a destination at whcih to spend a holiday. Visual impression of the sea quality at bathing facilities is usually left to our subjective evaluation, but ehat one can actually find in the sea, and how dangerous it can be for us, we usually do not notice and are relatively unfamiliar with it. In a matter of fact, what we are so neglectful about, are microorganisms that can have serious impacts on our health. In other words, quality of the bathing seawater primarily depends on their multitude. This paper contains a review of sanitary quality of seaside beaches, carried out in 1997 along coast and on the islands in Croatia, according to requirements stated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the decree of the Government of the Republic of Croatia.

sanitary; quality; sea; bacterial pollution; beach; coast; and islands; Croatia

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