The relationship
Milan , August 15, 2014 – 9:12
ROME – Two months into the sea to see up close if and where it is polluted. To collect samples of that water of the Mediterranean that wraps almost 7000 and 500 kilometers of coastline and do the analysis. The historic countryside of Green Schooner Legambiente has delivered this year a detailed report and in chiaroscuro. Although it is true that “the budget is still that of a sea that is in good health, with a bathing guaranteed in most of the coast,” says the scientist in charge of Legambiente Giorgio Zampetti, it is equally true that “out of 264 samples analyzed , mostly in places with risk as the mouths of rivers, were detected excessive values of fecal bacteria in 55 percent of cases, almost a point every 51 kilometers of coastline polluted. ”
Green Schooner has been to take samples of water especially at the critical points, where they arrive there in purified sea discharges that threaten the quality of coastal waters. Are the circles of Legambiente and the reports of citizens to have done to identify the points where the experts do the analysis. And the verdict covers 124 negative samples taken at the mouths of rivers, canals and drains are 22 suspects as those relating to the crowded beaches of tourists. The highest percentage of critical points is located in Molise three samples, all out of the norm. And then in Abruzzo and Marche, with 89 and 83 per cent of withdrawals results polluted, although Legambiente has taken pains to emphasize that the two regions were hit by heavy rains of the previous days of sampling and the high number of waterways and canals that flow into the sea. Following Calabria and Lazio respectively with 79 and 75 percent. The best result is that of Sardinia, just 10 percent of points polluted.
Disinformation then give that adds to the insult, reigns supreme. “The Portal of the Waters of the Ministry of Health – denounced the head of Green Schooner Serena Carpenters – is unclear. On the data there is chaos. Often the samples are made away from the critical points, in other cases it is said that the sea is swimming for the whole stretch of beach except at the point at which there is the drain, as if it were possible to limit the pollution. ”
Legambiente has discovered that 43 percent of the points for Green Schooner are polluted, are instead bathing on the website of the ministry, while 47 per cent of the points polluted according to Schooner does not exist sampling on the ministry’s website. Finally, continuous Carpenters, “in the few cases in which the ministry says the not bathing water, when we went to check if there were, on the spot, prohibition signs that adequate avvisino swimmers, we found them in only 7 percent of cases. ”
Some examples: in some parts of the sea as Fano, Alba Adriatica, Nicotera, Pachino and Sanremo on the Ministry’s website and there is a red dot above a green stripe. The bathroom can be done or not? The data and graphics contradict each other or are discordant with those issued by Arpa, the regional environmental protection agencies. A Cuma in front of the outlet channel of the purifier Green Schooner analyzes indicate a strong pollution, the ministry said that the site is suitable for swimming, ARPA Campania argues that the area is not “sufficiently sampled.” A Ladispoli, the mouth of the statue to Green Schooner is polluted, to the Water Portal is swimming but not for the ARPA Lazio. In Reggio Calabria, the public beach, not bathing for the ministry, presents a rescue service and no sign of prohibition. There, people do quietly swimming.
“The real killer of Italian waters is once again the lack of sewage treatment – said the vice president of Legambiente Stefano Ciafani -. After two convictions in 2012 and 2014, the European Commission has launched the third infringement proceedings for non-compliance of the directive on depuration of wastewaters. The proceedings relate to 880 cities and towns across Italy, 28 per cent of the total, in practice one Italian in three. ”
August 15, 2014 | 09:12
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