If you daydream about swimming through salty turquoise water on a European summer vacation, you’re not alone. Yes, you can swim in the Aegean, bask in the sun on a French beach, or live la dolce vita on the rocky shores of Sicily, but in between daydreaming, have you stopped to think about just how clean the water is?
A new report by the European Commission and the European Environment Agency found Croatia — the small Balkan nation on the Adriatic Sea — claims some of the cleanest coastal waters in all of Europe.
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The study, which used data from 2023,…