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The National Resources Defense Council in the US has served the Environmental Protection Agency with a notice of intent to sue, concerning pollution at the nation's beaches. 
 
The EPA was supposed to have revised water quality standards by October 2005, but now says it won't be able to do that until 2011. 
 
The lawsuit aims to force the EPA to speed up that process and strengthen standards for recreational areas and sewage disposal. 
 
The Council quotes statistics that 2 to 14 per cent of beachgoers become ill, with anything from rashes and stomach aches to hepatitis and encephalitis and that the EPA is using technology that is 100 years old. 
 

US beachgoers at health risk from polluted ocean water

Global Surf News - 5/25/2006 12:14 PM

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 25 May, 2006 : - - The Natural Resources Defense Council said Wednesday, the US Environmental Protection Agency has moved too slowly to update beach water quality standards and protect people from diarrhea, skin rashes, earaches, pink eye, respiratory infections and other ailments from polluted water.
 
The agency missed an October 2005 deadline mandated by Congress to revise outdated water quality standards and says it will not be able to finish the job until 2011, the group said.
 
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