In the last regional election propaganda circulated a sheet which gives: "Tuscany in good health" status of water is perhaps the best indicator to assess the overall status of a territory, and in Tuscany the water is bad. From the site of the region know that the water system Tuscan weighs 12.2 million population equivalent, much more than the actual 3.5 million citizens. Three quarters of this weight is given by the industry, while only the remaining quarter from agriculture. It 'a weight that affects the quantity, but inevitably on water quality. The State of the Environment Report 2009 in Tuscany dell'ARPAT, page. 172 states that 88 % Of our sources (wells, springs, leads, etc.) are in the worst class, the class A3, which requires drinking water be made a "physical and chemical treatment pushed, extended treatment and disinfection." We were already 82% in 2006. In other words, the bulk of the water in Tuscany is used and polluted by industry, agriculture secondarily, and that little is left for the population, it is very polluted, it is very expensive to purify a bit ', and more succeed we must drink in derogation from the limits of the law, as we shall see below. All this litter the principles of the Galli Law (36/1994) that the priorities ridabiva consumption of this primary good, the first place it is for civilian consumption, and secondly to agriculture, industry and all that remains. Narrowing his eyes at the level of the province of Livorno, this distortion is evident. The oil terminal in Livorno consumes 67 million cubic meters per year of fresh water (so-called "industrial", that is good water, but polluted upstream), the Solvay 18 million, to Piombino at least 10 million, geothermal at least 4 million : add 99 million cubic meters per year, which should be added to those of the two main ports and industrial minors. Conversely ASA provides to the population of 29 million cubic meters a year (Sustainability Report 2007), perhaps a fifth of total industrial consumption. Scraping the bottom of the barrel, as seen above, the remaining water to the population to be purified with increasingly massive doses of chlorine, which we find ourselves at the tap in the form of carcinogenic trihalomethanes and chlorine. And still not enough, because there is also supplied water to arsenic and boron, beyond the legal limits. The dire water situation in Italy prompted the central government to issue a decree (Decree 31/2001) and granting the regions the power to issue exemptions from the limits of national laws on pollutants in drinking water. The Tuscany "postcard" was denied the opportunity to be granted and provide good water to its citizens. But not so: he used the decree immediately, beginning to issue exemptions for trihalomethanes, chlorine, arsenic and boron, involving ever more extensive areas of our region (in 2008 about 600,000 were involved in Tuscany). And what is worse, without informing the population, and without initiating plans for remediation and restoration of water quality, although information and reclamation plans are expressly provided for in the decree, and are an indispensable condition the issuance of waivers. The latest issued by the Tuscany Region (No. 754 in 2008, n.1587 of 9.4.2009, n. 3608 of 24.07.2009) drew specific obligation to inform the population, even "provide advice to specific population groups" at particular risk, such as those under 14 years for boron, but does not translate into action the duty of information, which also will rely on ASL and mayors. Worse still for the reclamation plans that do not exist, or where there are feeders for the "caste". For example, in 2003 - after years of protests and MD of the population - was made a project of reclamation of the Val di Cecina, polluted by arsenic, boron, mercury, chromium, etc. (the Project "Cecina pilot basin") with an allocation of 35 million €. To date, no remediation has been completed (Or even started), you continue to drink water notwithstanding, and 35 million seem to be dispersing in a thousand streams with no results. Note that since 2008 he is involved in the regional derogation also the city of Livorno, for Trihalomethanes (carcinogenic chlorine derivatives, such as chloroform), completing the involvement of the whole province, from the last common Collesalvetti Elbe. No derogation from the last regional 1514 March 26, 2010 - issued in anticipation of a ruling by the European Commission was expected because the affected third period - Livorno town has mysteriously disappeared, as other municipalities. Note also that several municipalities as Cecina Piombino, involving two or more pollutants since 2003, which multiplies the health risk for the population. Finally, 28 October 2010 came the reprimand of the EC, waiting for a year, which blocks the exceptions of Tuscany and other regions, imposing a certain deadline 31.12.2012 for arsenic, boron and other substances, but not for trihalomethanes and chlorine. The EC document states clearly that arsenic is carcinogenic, and that the boron must go down to the limit of 0.5 ml / l recommended by WHO, while up to the end of 2012 it will provide up to 3 mg / l in our province. Also states that the water containing these two substances should not be given to children under three years limit lax and incomprehensible, because the exceptions of the Tuscany Region for boron fixed the limit of no use up to 14 years, a much wider audience, even if no one cared about it to know and respect. As the complaint ISDE, an international association with which democratic Medicine has established a permanent cooperation protocol, cancer in children increased by 3.2% annually, twice the European average, the highest percentage in the Western world. A recent epidemiological survey of the Tuscany Region on the effects of geothermal energy in the two areas of Amiata geothermal Larderello and says that 535 deaths were observed in most ripetto expected estimated on the Tuscan population, and that the population is exposed to arsenic and mercury emissions, while boron has been poured into the river Cecina for decades. For years now systematically these pollutants reach the coast and the Val di Cornia, and through the pipe from Piombino, pollution geothermal their way into the Elbe. In these days in all kindergartens of the Elbe was the feeding of tap water to children. But the attitude of the authorities does not seem to change, for example when they continue to claim, falsely, the origin of "natural" pollutants. It's actually an entire system of production and administrative collapsing, and continue to minimize this failure is a serious (ir) responsibility in more. On this framework already disturbing and chaotic, hovers like a ghost privatization (or rather the completion of privatization) of water in Tuscany and Italy, but at the same time it also opens the battle for national referendums, calling for water in the hands of citizens. In Tuscany, in the meantime you should be back to "commissioner" provisional, in view of a super-authority (sic) that will probably all the water in the hands of a multinational. At worst there is no end. 24.12.10 Maurizio Marchi
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