More or less in the middle of the extraordinary city council session dedicated to the “water case”, the group leader of the Democratic Party Felice Calabrò He asks a dry question, which is then the mother of all the questions about the theme: “Is Messina water drinking? Yes or not? ». And another dry question asks it shortly after, to the general manager of the ASP Giuseppe Cuccì, the representative of the “we want the water from the tap” committee, Nicola Arena: “Do you, Dr. Cuccì, would you drink the water from the tap today?” But equally dry responses do not arrive, neither from Cuccì, nor from the mayor Federico Basile, who in the end of the session moves on the thread of the lexical details: “For me the water is drinkable if I can drink it, but in recent months I have discovered that the water must be suitable for human consumption and in order to be it it needs the certification of the ASP. Of course I cannot think that the city believes that the mayor enters water that is not good ». It almost puts it on the level of the personal offense, Basile, but the theme, returning overwhelmingly in the last few weeks, is collective and is purely administrative: One account is the “good” water, one account is drinking water, or suitable, And the point is that that certification of the ASP, in these about 8 months (the order signed by the mayor dates back to September 5), was not there.
Only in the last few hours – news provided during the city council – a provisional judgment of suitability has arrived for one of the five wells activated in September, the well Cucinotta, to Mili. “The final judgment is given after periodic checks carried out every three monthsbut in the water emergency phase, as established by the regional ordinance, we can derogate and give a provisional judgment “, explains the director of the ASP. For two other wells (one is the busà, always in Mil), similar judgments are expected in the coming weeks, while they were closed – it is not known when – those of Brig because, finally the mayor clarifies, “there was an electric problem”.
