The skits on drinking water are just starting out, especially after the European Commission Decision of 28.10.10, which has highlighted the poor water management in Italy and Tuscany, and prohibited further exceptions to some pollutants such as arsenic and boron. Nitrates, in 2003 a study of the Province of Livorno, kept stored in the last drawer, warned that "Unfortunately, the progressive deterioration in his state of the water may jeopardize the water supply for the coming years. ... Nitrates in humans lead to a dual mechanism of toxicity: methaemoglobinaemia, so the red blood cells lose their ability to carry oxygen to tissues with very serious consequences even in the nervous system, and the formation of nitrosamines, which cause liver damage and constitute one of the most dangerous class of carcinogens. "The most vulnerable are children under three years. The study's conclusions are drastic: "If they are not applied to land reclamation and quantitative measures to protect the water resource within the next 10 years none of the wells located in the plain between the River End and the River Cecina will be able to provide clean water. " But the problem was not and is not limited to that area: the entire coastal plain from Livorno is involved, as demonstrated in the case of St. Vincent. So little has been done in the seven years that the mayor had to issue a ordinanaza to prohibit the use of water for excess nitrates. This ordinanaza ASL and ASA are now sealed to reassure that the nitrates are now back within the limits of the law, as if by magic. The episode is an incredible opaqueness, both in times of fast solution of the problem ("Repair a failure ") and admits that because ASL is still awaiting the analysis of the Laboratory of Lucca, but why such testing should be done in Lucca, a city that sells large amounts of water to the devastated province of Livorno, in return for 'reception of its waste-Rosignano disheveled? The problem is much wider and more serious than it seems: the entire province of Livorno has a bad water quality, not only nitrates but also boron, arsenic, trihalomethanes and chlorine. And not for natural geological causes, such as our guardians continue to say, but because the big industrial centers, and geothermal consume the bulk of the water, leaving the population the remains of course very bad. In particular, St. Vincent bears, as well as nitrates, boron also notwithstanding the limits of the law, in a concentration three times higher than that recommended by the European Commission, and even six times higher than recommended by the World Health Organisation. 01/12/2010 Tel 0586-4845510 cell. 328-4152024 Maurizio Marchi (Head of Provincial Road)
