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There are about one and a half billion cubic meters of water on Earth. Due to its large size, Water is considered an unlimited resource, though it isn’t.
Water is a primary resource, essential for the survival; nevertheless, most of it is not treated with sufficient importance, we do not understand its great value, and we often let the problems related to it go unnoticed.
That’s one of the reasons why our team has decided to focus on the depollution of water, by monitoring the project led by the Municipality of Cirò, financed by European Union.
To better understand the concept of pollution, we need to start by the etymology. What does the word “pollution” mean? The term "polluting" derives from the Latin and literally means to infect, contaminate with bacteria or other pathogenic and harmful agents, alter a medium such as air, water or soil in such a way as to make it harmful to people or to nature, modify its characteristics in such a way as to make it unsuitable for the purpose it is intended for.
We are analyzing the data of the project on Environment depollution in our area, Cirò. The municipality of Ciró and the Calabria region are the subjects involved. The theme of this project specifically concerns water treatment. We couldn’t find many data, apart from those on opencohesion site, and we made two infographics the little data at our disposal by using infogram.
The open cohesion website shows that the monitored public cost is € 1,400,000, of which cohesion resources are € 741,153.39. The progress is still ongoing despite the actual start dates back to 28/12/2007 and the end to 16/06/2009. (See Figure 1 – TIMELINE)
In 2007 400€ were used (0%), in 2008 € 528,731.53 (37%) were used, in 2009 € 1,156,006.09 (82%) were used, in 2010 1,167,146.09 (83%) were used. (See Figure 2 – MONITORED PAYMENTS)
Safeguarding our own territory, caring for the good of the community is our duty, since being part of a community means contributing to the good of society itself. It is important to spread information about the world around us, our awareness can make a difference. And this is precisely our goal: to spread awareness of what is happening in the country we live in, to increase the supply capacity, the quality and efficiency of the water service, to strengthen soil protection and to prevent natural hazards.
Monitoring helps to clarify shadow zones, to point out the contradictions, difficulties met by public bodies to carry out a project so much important as depollution.
Know to ask yourself why, a well-posed question can certainly lead to good answers.
