And nobody in the government seems to care.
Change.org regarding this
Disgusting video of fecal waters on their way to the sea (I think anyone with a facebook account can watch this?)
I live in Tenerife and this is making me sick. All water in beaches is visibly dirty and full of literal shit. Of course, since the ones complaining are the locals, and we locals don't matter, they won't do anything unless tourists start complaining, international media picks on, and tourism actually takes a hit.
In fact the goverment is so full of shit (heh) that they are calling this "microalgae". No sir, this is microshit.
I don't even know what the purpose of this thread is. Don't come here until it's fixed I guess. Warn people.
Living near the sea & being able to go to the beach anytime is one of the few good things about living in this isolated place and now I can't even do that in peace. Ugh.
More pics:
There is a new article about this. If you can read Spanish here is the article.
If you can't here is the article in a nutshell:
96% of fecal and industrial waters in Tenerife are thrown to the sea without any filtering or treatment. There are 170 sewage points in Tenerife (data from 2008, it's probable a shiton more now), and of those 170,120 do NOT have authorisation to do any sewage. Only 2.3 million litres of water are treated, while the 96% remaining is not. This mean just in Tenerife 57 millions litres of water are dropped untreated to the sea. And, again, this is 2008 data. It's probably even worse now. And this is only speaking of Tenerife, this happens on all the Canary Islands, but apparently the damage is only easily visible in Tenerife. There are 500 located sewage points across all the Canary Islands, and of those 500 only 102 are authorised, meaning the 74% of sewage across all the islands are unauthorised. To help imagine the scale of this, in Santa Cruz, Tenerife's capital city, there are 34 (located, probably more) sewage points, of which only 9 are authorised.
Again, the Canary Islands government WON'T recognise this. This is breaking the European Union law. If relevant UE authorities notice this they will be in BIG trouble (as they deserve). They even go as far as threatening people calling us liars and accusing us of spreading false rumours on twitter/facebook and creating "unnecessary social alarm".
Please spread this to anyone who has ever considered coming to the Canary Islands. In an ideal world there would be zero tourists until this is resolved.
I forgot to mention that there has been a huge spike recently in hepatitis A cases in the Canary Islands. I wonder why. :^)
Change.org regarding this
Disgusting video of fecal waters on their way to the sea (I think anyone with a facebook account can watch this?)
I live in Tenerife and this is making me sick. All water in beaches is visibly dirty and full of literal shit. Of course, since the ones complaining are the locals, and we locals don't matter, they won't do anything unless tourists start complaining, international media picks on, and tourism actually takes a hit.
In fact the goverment is so full of shit (heh) that they are calling this "microalgae". No sir, this is microshit.
I don't even know what the purpose of this thread is. Don't come here until it's fixed I guess. Warn people.
Living near the sea & being able to go to the beach anytime is one of the few good things about living in this isolated place and now I can't even do that in peace. Ugh.
More pics:
There is a new article about this. If you can read Spanish here is the article.
If you can't here is the article in a nutshell:
96% of fecal and industrial waters in Tenerife are thrown to the sea without any filtering or treatment. There are 170 sewage points in Tenerife (data from 2008, it's probable a shiton more now), and of those 170,120 do NOT have authorisation to do any sewage. Only 2.3 million litres of water are treated, while the 96% remaining is not. This mean just in Tenerife 57 millions litres of water are dropped untreated to the sea. And, again, this is 2008 data. It's probably even worse now. And this is only speaking of Tenerife, this happens on all the Canary Islands, but apparently the damage is only easily visible in Tenerife. There are 500 located sewage points across all the Canary Islands, and of those 500 only 102 are authorised, meaning the 74% of sewage across all the islands are unauthorised. To help imagine the scale of this, in Santa Cruz, Tenerife's capital city, there are 34 (located, probably more) sewage points, of which only 9 are authorised.
Again, the Canary Islands government WON'T recognise this. This is breaking the European Union law. If relevant UE authorities notice this they will be in BIG trouble (as they deserve). They even go as far as threatening people calling us liars and accusing us of spreading false rumours on twitter/facebook and creating "unnecessary social alarm".
Please spread this to anyone who has ever considered coming to the Canary Islands. In an ideal world there would be zero tourists until this is resolved.
I forgot to mention that there has been a huge spike recently in hepatitis A cases in the Canary Islands. I wonder why. :^)
