Vibo’s ‘great thirst’ amid inefficiencies and undrinkable water. Sanitation problems also in the reservoir serving the Triparni district.
Between bans on drinking and inefficiencies, Vibo Valentia, the city in Italy’s southern Calabria region, is increasingly in a water emergency. A de facto emergency that has never been declared because the relevant authorities and institutions have never joined forces to tackle the decades-old problem head on. Yet formal recognition of the emergency would be the first step towards obtaining the funds needed to repair the water network.
Water losses from the municipal system have reached 60 per cent: a huge waste that is bound to increase without substantial intervention. As a result, more and more places in Vibo and its hamlets are running out of water.
Then there is the alarming question of drinking water: a fundamental issue that has never been resolved, but which continues to be proposed on a regular basis. The sanitary problems discovered two days ago in the tank serving the hamlet of Triparni come on top of those discovered last January in the ‘Sacerdote’ tank, which serves a large part of the city. For the past four months, the residents of Viale della Pace, Via Sacerdote and other areas of Vibo have been unable to use the water that reaches their homes.
