Strategy will tackle ‘public health disaster’ that claims more lives than fire, flooding or knife crime A national strategy to address the “public health disaster” of drowning has been launched in England – hours after two women died at an Essex beach, the latest in a surge of water-related trage...
Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/23/vanessa-absess-mother-joe-drowned-boy-naivety-open-water-swimming-england-drowning-strategy)