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Article: River water quality indicator for sustainable development - 2006 final results; Statistical release.
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- August 28, 2007
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M2 PRESSWIRE-28 August 2007-UK Government: River water quality indicator for sustainable development - 2006 final results; Statistical release(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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The river water quality indicator is one of the 68 indicators of the Government's Sustainable Development Strategy. It separately measures biological and chemical river water quality on an annual basis and the indicator for each represents the proportion of river water, in terms of river length, which is considered to be of "good" quality.
The main results are as follows:
Biological river water quality
In England
* 71 per cent ...