Dirty to nausea

Europeans are unhappy with the quality of water on their beaches, the European Union before the peak of the tourist season conducted the quality of sea water on their beaches. Its results were unpleasantly surprised by local officials. “In each of the 20 European resorts, especially on lakes and rivers, certain violations have been recorded,” said the head of the EU Ecological Commission, Commissioner Stavros Dimas. This is especially true for Russians. As the newspaper has already reported, this summer Europe is the most popular direction from our tourists who decided to relax abroad.

The dirtiest beaches, according to Dimas, in Poland and Malta. What kind of violations are recorded in these countries, the commissioner did not specify. However, it is known that water was checked for the presence in it of a number of bacteria (E. coli), as well as fuel oil and oil, foam of cleaning and detergents. “Their entering the body can cause vomiting, skin problems and breathing,” Dimas explained.

Without any fears for your health, you can relax on the beaches of Greece. All sea beaches and beaches in internal reservoirs here meet the minimum cleanliness criteria. That is, some disorders take place, but they do not harm a person’s health. And 98% of the local beaches meet the maximum requirements. On the coast of Spain, the minimum requirements fulfill 99% of the beaches. The maximum is a little more than 92%. In third place in Italy: 94% of the local beaches correspond to the minimum set of criteria. 92% - the maximum.

In other countries of the detailed report, the EU commissar did not give, however, based on his speech, one can give one general advice: it is better to relax on the sea coast, since only 65% of beaches on rivers and lakes within countries are considered clean. “This is due to the fact that we are not able to control what is happening inside the country, and the authorities do not want to remove the IC from the hut,” said Dimas.

Such water quality tests are carried out on Russian beaches. In particular, as the newspaper was told in the territorial administration of Rospotrebnadzor in the Krasnodar Territory, water samples in the resorts of the region are being taken every 10 days. According to the last check, all her cities were satisfactorily. A little worse (but at a permissible level) were the results in Novorossiysk and Tuapse, since they are considered industrial areas. The Sanitary Epidemiological Station of Crimea "Gazeta" said that water samples are being taken every week. The last check was passed all the beaches.

One could rejoice for such a result. Here are just a newspaper correspondent, as well as his friends and relatives who rested both in the Krasnodar Territory and in Crimea, for each of their arrival are forced to see a completely different picture: after the next tide in the water, polyethylene bags, banks and bottles, food remains, dog excrement and other, clearly not provided for by sanitary norms, swim.

06/14/2006 / Elena Ogneva, the material was published in the "newspaper" No. 101 of 06/15/2006.