From this morning only residents can disembark on the island of Capri, but not tourists.
This was established by an urgent ordinance issued by the mayor Paolo Falco, due to the failure of the water pipe that supplies the island . Without supplies, Falco underlines, it is impossible to guarantee essential services taking into account the thousands of people who travel to the island every day during the tourist season.
At the moment water is still supplied in most of the island. Some isolated areas of the municipality of Anacapri are dry. However, only local reservoirs supply the network, which in the absence of supplies from the mainland threaten to run out.
The Gori water company, responsible for the water supply on the island of Capri, explains that "all investigations and checks are underway to resolve the critical issues and restore the service" . The repair works, explains Gori, «were completed within the scheduled time. However, when the water flow was reopened, technical problems arose which still lead to water shortages in various locations in the municipalities of the Sorrento Peninsula and on the entire island of Capri."
The stop to the disembarkation of tourists on Capri due to the water emergency is causing consequences in the ports of departure towards the blue island , starting from the Molo Beverello in Naples where there are currently long queues of passengers at the ticket offices of the shipping companies. The ships and hydrofoils that had already left for Capri were contacted via radio by the maritime authority who ordered their return to port and the disembarkation of passengers. At Beverello the companies are refunding hundreds of tickets.
(Unioneonline/D)
