«In Chia, a wonderful location, an unbearable stench of urine and feces. And all because the Municipality doesn't have bathrooms installed in the kiosks." The indignation comes from Carlo Giovanardi. Former minister, former deputy and former senator, he is currently on holiday on the south-western side of the Gulf of Angels, in the area of Domus de Maria, Su Giudeu beach. He calls the editorial office, indignant, «because it seems to me», he ironizes, «that here too we are in Italy and health and hygiene regulations must be applied. Instead it seems to be the only municipality in the country that snubs them. Result: if one has to do something, whether liquid or solid, he either goes to the sea or goes into the dunes. It's not incredible, it's grotesque."
When called into question, the mayor Concetta Spada replies: «The bathrooms are there, of course. Except that they were placed in the area behind the dunes, chemical and connected to the sewage system. We cannot allow", explains the first citizen, "that with hundreds of users, in any chemical plants, the wastewater ends up in the sea: Giovanardi should know that if the sea is so beautiful it is also thanks to this decision. Otherwise in ten years it would be yellow."
Contrasting visions, which cannot be reconciled even when they are reported to the parties involved through the intermediation of the reporter. Giovanardi reiterates: «I haven't seen the bathrooms. But then, if what the mayor says is true, can someone, perhaps elderly or disabled, walk hundreds and hundreds of meters under the sun to do their business?", is the rhetorical question, which has an answer: " No , the result is in the facts. Only here is the thesis according to which hygiene is not respected in the name of uncontaminated nature. Even in Matera, in the stones, in the same space there were families, children and animals. But it's 2024, there's a bathroom in every house. At Domus de Maria, on the beach, there are no bathrooms."
Spada again: «The services are available as early as May 15th. Of course, in Su Giudeu you have to walk a bit. But ours is a non-urbanized coastline, we are preserving and enhancing the dunes. The former minister", is the thesis, "relaunched the position of the beachgoers, who wanted the bathrooms also to earn something from it.
