Clean sea, coasts Sardinians to the top in Italy – La Nuova Sardegna

  ROME. Italians often swim in hot water every 62 km of coastline polluted there is a point, sometimes close to the beaches, and the fault is not purified discharges through rivers, ditches and canals flow into the sea. But Sardinia is confirmed at the top and in the comparison of all other regions is the true queen. The Green Schooner Legambiente sailed along all the coasts of Italy collecting 266 samples of water, and discovering bacterial loads exceeding the limits of the law in 45% of cases.

 

 To be polluted are 120 points, half of them at beaches almost always free. 49%, says the association, is not championship by the competent authorities, that is not under health checks, and 38% is swimming on the Portal of the Waters of the Ministry of Health, while they are only 14 points forbidden for bathing. Environmental damage but also economic, “it is estimated that the EU sanctions are equal to 476 million euro a year from 2016 until the completion of the works.”

 

 Legambiente does not propose a ranking regional marine pollution. But promotes the Upper Adriatic in Sardinia. Island analyzes of Green Schooner, concluded a few days ago, had highlighted four critical points on 47 tracts in the middle of sampling along 1,850 kilometers of coastline. Rejected Marche, Abruzzo and Sicily, the latter with 14 out of 26 analyzed samples polluted.

 

 A ranking is instead on the illegality, with 14,542 offenses recorded by the police and the port authorities for crimes related to the sea and the coast in 2014: about 40 a day, 2 per km of coastline. Apulia stands with 3,164 offenses, followed by Sicily (2346) Campania (1837) and Calabria (1370). On offenses detected per km of coastline, Campania is first with 3.9, followed by Puglia (3.7), Molise (3.1), Liguria (3) and Marche (2.9). The types of crime, says the president of Legambiente Vittorio Cogliati Dezza, “ranging from unlawful in cement production on state maritime pollution of the sea due to bad treatment, sewage, oil pollution, spillage of waste of various kinds, also if not lacking

cases of poaching. ” It contributes to the more general framework of the lack of a suitable purification treatment. Which still regards the 42% of sewage Italian. And that could cost the government Renzi sanction European salty, as not fail to stress Legambiente.