The clear blue sea, emerald green waters, but also beaches with contamination levels out of control. Along the Italian coast, there is a point polluted every 54 kilometers. Practically, on the 265 controls made this summer by Green Schooner , the Legambiente campaign for clean seas and lakes, the 52% reported results red alert. Not to mention that in the waters in which the technicians have found significant rates of dirt, people often go to bathe because even though there is formally bathing prohibition, in 74% of cases the auditors have “forgotten” to put a sign to advise citizens.
purification Deficit – Legambiente from the time the complaint “About 25% of the population is not covered by an appropriate cleaning service “. Plants inadequate, old, undersized, or even absent. And the data on samples taken from Green Schooner, often at the mouth of rivers, ditches, canals and drains, prove it. On the 15 coastal regions Italian, in fact, in eight at least 65% of the controlled points has levels of faecal bacteria (Escherichia coli and intestinal enterococci, those that should be killed the cleaning) over the statutory thresholds. Among the worst situations there are the Calabria , the Abruzzo and Brands , but things are not much better in Molise, Liguria, Campania and Sicily. All coastal regions have at least one point “polluted chronic”, with the results out of control levels at least five times between 2010 and 2016, but in some cases the situation is more worrying, “with at least 5 sample points that are now polluted by years (Marche, Liguria, Lazio, Campania and Calabria). “
Under the lens of Brussels – it is no coincidence that in several of these regions most urban areas is now affected by the provisions of the European Commission , which in recent years has launched three infringement procedures against Italy, all the drain in sea water is not properly purified. A third of urban agglomerations nationwide is involved by measures of the European Commission. In Campania 81% of the settlements is under the attention of Brussels or convicted for breach of the EC rules. In Sicily the figure is 73%, in Calabria to 62, in the Marche to 52. Among the consequences are not only damage the environment and tourism with adjoining international fool: “Apart from the environmental costs, there are also economic ones to the community: from 2016, our country will have to pay 480 million euro a year, until the completion of the upgrading operations,” explains by Legambiente Giorgio Zampetti .
Citizens kept in the dark – 88% of slippages identified by Legambiente is at the mouths of rivers, ditches, waterways or drains along the coast and more than half relates to areas close to beaches and beach resorts . Whose customers are not always aware of the quality of the water where they try a bit ‘of refreshment or do the children play. “Between the mouths of rivers, ditches and channels monitored by Legambiente this summer, 1 out of 3 is not sampled by the competent authority because they are places not at the bathing water according to the cost profiles drawn up early in the season by regions and municipalities. Often, however, they are frequented by bathers because there are no signs of bathing ban, which should provide the municipalities: absent in 7% of the points visited by Green Schooner technical “, denounced by the Swan.
not to mention the information boards should communicate to the public the data of the latest analyzes carried out by Harp , the class of quality of the sea and the beach any critical: “According to regulations, the coastal municipalities is required to include the advice for two years now but engineers of Green Schooner have seen them only in the 5% of the cases “. What to do? The association appeals to the Law on ecoreati: “It also provides for the offense of environmental pollution, good tool against those who continue to download illegally into rivers and the sea.”
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