The theme of the moment is again: the water in Messina and its potability, between an informal suitability, on which the mayor puts the proverbial hand on the fire, and the official one, which instead is not yet there. Let’s try to orient ourselves, with some questions and answers about what, in the state, we know about this story.
1. Is the water that arrives in our homes drinking?
Officially not, it is not, even if the Municipality believes it is drinkable. This was stated by the same order that the mayor Federico Basile signed on September 5, the one with which he gave the Amam provisions to introduce the water from four wells in the south area into the city water network, for a total of about 39 liters per second. With that act, the mayor “warns the citizenship that, without prejudice to the potability of the waters of the wells in question, already ascertained through the analyzes carried out by certified laboratories, for the only precautionary purpose and up to the acquisition of the certification of suitability of the waters prendered by the ASP, is closely recommended to use the water of the municipal water network only for the sanitary hygiene needs”.
2. Why is the water officially not drinkable?
Because by law the only institution deputy to define the water of a water network drinking, with a judgment of suitability, the result of a precise process is the ASP, the provincial health company. And on that water introduced into the wells the ASP has not yet expressed itself, despite over seven months have passed. After the go -ahead of the ASP, moreover, it is necessary to acquire the license to draw on the part of the civil genius, also, of course, absent.
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