Basketable Tiber within 5 years? Also not. A few days after the announcement by the Gualtieri Administration of the next establishment of a technical table, the first call would be scheduled for next October, the words far from comforting of environmental doctors arrive.
From Sima, in fact, the Italian Society of Environmental Medicine, the experts warn on the risks related to the pollution of the Tiber and on the enormous efforts that the Municipality should make to ensure the health of bathers.
The idea of making the Tiber seaside has undoubtedly a symbolic charm and could represent an ambitious vision for the future of Rome – says Alessandro Miani, president of Tellimetto TV TV. However, it is a perspective that must deal with two crucial aspects.
There Not Basketball of the Tiber
Environmental doctors refer to precise factors: on the one hand, the city’s ability not only to reclaim but also to maintain over time the quality of water quality through constant maintenance and effective control systems.
On the other – continues Miani – the need for a real civic predisposition with citizens called to respect rules and spaces shared without which the best project also risks failing. In any case, the zero risk does not exist, as we have had the opportunity to see and check in Paris during the Olympics. It would then be desirable that this work is preceded by the safety of the banks and by a plan for a better organization of the river road network.
Basketballable Tiber in 5 years? The environmental doctors of Sima-Environmental Medicine warn on the risks related to the #Tevere pollution and on the enormous efforts that the Municipality should make to ensure the #salute of citizens-Bagnanti. “The idea of making the Tiber seaside has undoubtedly a symbolic charm and could represent an ambitious vision for the future of #Roma.- says #Alessandromiani, president of the Italian society #MedicinaAgrae (#sima), intervened today in Teleambiente TV. However, it is a perspective that must deal with two crucial aspects. On the one hand, the ability of the city not only to recover but also to keep the standards in time of water quality through constant maintenance and effective control systems. On the other hand, – the need for a real civic predisposition with the citizens called to respect the rules and spaces shared without which the best project risks failing. Organization of the river road network. therefore, more than an immediate promise, the bathing Tiber should be read as a suggestive, certainly beautiful idea, which would also favor quality tourism in the capital of Italy, in a long -term direction that requires a city capable of managing the ordinary before going on the ordinary extra “
Posted by Sima – Environmental Medicine On Thursday, September 11, 2025
On the other hand, even the scientists engaged in the “Microplastic Mission” project, a European study on the pollution of the waterways, have shown that in the main city waterway there are 3 microplastics every cube of water.
We talk about it here: from the Tiber to the Seine, all European rivers are invaded by microplastics – Greenme
Little compared to other rivers, so much if you want to talk about bathing.
And again, also an inspire investigation that has shown how the Tiber is the river that transports more floating waste especially plastic) to the sea.
Meanwhile, the Municipality let them know that starting from analysis and studies on the state of health of the river, and by critical issues already identified as the confluence area between Tiber and Aniene, the main carrier of the polluting factors, “A project will be drawn up that will include all the necessary actions, starting from the geographical delimitation of the intervention area, monitoring, analysis but above all the infrastructures and interventions necessary for water purification “.
We will see.
Sources: Sima / Municipality of Rome / ISPRA
