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Mattanza of an ecosystem and

expressively of March 14, 2008
The relentless process of destruction of substrate that is home to continue the last madness of our species. Perhaps it speaks more often of air, or land, this time it's the turn of bad news on the water, rivers and groundwater Lombard are in bad condition.

Water poisonous

Emiliano Fittipaldi

The river Ticino alarm cadmium, chromium, ammonia, nitrogen. In doses out of bounds. And other pollutants in water bodies in the province of Milan and Pavia. Discovered by the Forestry Corps.

purifier Nosedo (photo Prospekt)

In 1997 the World Gold have stopped fishing in the Ticino. The organizers went without fail: the precious flakes fall from the Alps to the dawn of time, and the deeds of the seekers (thousands of slaves hired by the Roman Empire, actually) has already told Pliny the Elder. Today, a new race is unimaginable: it is estimated that the river transport micro-nuggets every day for a value of between 5 000 and 10 000 €, not much. But for sure, if you assemble a new stage of the championship, now in the noble metal pans would not yellow, but pernicious (and unseen) heavy metals. That, in addition to dozens of other toxic substances, form a killer menu to the flora and fauna ecosystem. Cadmium, hexavalent chromium and ammonia are just some of the pollutants found in amounts exceeding those limits by the technicians of the State Forestry Corps, which put under observation part of the river near Morisset. A charming town, beyond the name, famous for its organic products: siamo all'interno del Parco della Valle del Ticino, annoverata dall'Unesco tra i patrimoni dell'umanità.

" Mancanza di depuratori, scarichi urbani, agricoli e industriali hanno messo in serio pericolo la salute delle acque . E chi si fa il bagno nel fiume lo fa a suo rischio e pericolo", dice Elisabetta Morgante, vice-questore aggiunto della polizia scientifica ambientale. Non solo ignari canoisti e pescatori e altri habitué del Ticino, ma anche chi va nelle toilette di alcune fabbriche di Abbiategrasso, senza saperlo, mette a rischio la propria incolumità. A pochi chilometri da Milano, infatti, gli agenti del Corpo hanno scoperto che l'acqua che esce dai rubinetti di alcune fabbriche di un grosso insediamento Industrial (about 20 buildings in the suburbs) is poisoned. Employees, workers and managers are washed with cadmium, nickel and lead, metals found in both the pipes for the toilets and drains in the neighborhood. Even in the province of Pavia, in Albury, the mobile laboratory investigations have uncovered situations to the limit. The black water of a new residential complex in the country end up straight in the fields of irrigation canals. Apart from the stench, annoying but harmless, the proper water to phenol and nickel penetrates into the ground where they grow hay and grain. Corn and wheat that are transformed into bread and pasta.

who believes that Lombardy, the richest and most developed area of Italy, is immune from the effects of wild and anthropisation wrong. The rivers of the region are very dirty: according to the latest figures released by Environment Agency, 32 percent of rivers is 'poor' or 'bad', and the primary strata, the more the surface, are practically affected. Such as Lombardy, the rest of the Po Valley retains subsoil nitrates, metals and pesticides in massive quantities. "We think the effects of dioxin in Naples and the aquifers of the South, but here we have serious problems," says Damiano Simin, regional president of Legambiente: "Ten million people, including seven million pigs and cattle, settlements zootecnici e industriali hanno un impatto pesante. Se il Seveso e l'Olona non viaggiano dentro zone agricole, l'inquinatissimo Lambro viene usato tuttora per irrigare i campi. Una bomba biologica". Nel Bresciano le industrie di fucili e chiodi della Val Trompia scaricano nel fiume Mella, che bagna filari di ortaggi e frumento. Un corso che ha sparpagliato la diossina prodotta dalla Caffaro di Brescia per mezza provincia.

La Lombardia è in ottima compagnia. I dati Apat disegnano un quadro a tinte fosche di tutte le acque tricolori. Quella potabile è in genere di ottima qualità, ma le riserve blu del sottosuolo e i corsi in superficie sono, in parte, contaminati, come mostrano la tabellla qui a fianco, e come spieghiamo nel dettaglio nell'articolo di pagina 53. Con un trend decisamente negativo: rispetto al 2003, l'acqua delle falde inquinata per mano dell'uomo passa dal 21,5 al 28 per cento, mentre il liquido di classe 1 e 2, il più pregiato, diminuisce di tre punti.

(13 marzo 2008)