Can play strange and far as a concept, but also in Italy there are gods citizens not connected to the public sewage network because not yet served by the public sewer service. To emphasize this aspect is Istat in its analysis Water statistics for the period 2020-2024 In which it is evident that one Italian out of 10 is now devoid of access to the sewage network, for a total of 6.6 million people. Furthermore, to worry is the fact that compared to the recent past, or the previous study of 2020, the situation has remained substantially unchanged species to South where the worst results are recorded.
Italians without Fogne, a problem especially in the South
The data collected and processed by Istat on the access of citizens to public sewer service they place theItaly In the ninth place between the 27 member countries, a data that is certainly not comforting given the discomfort and backwardness it entails for a state not to be able to guarantee all its residents a treatment equality on such an important theme.
If, as mentioned, in 2022 the number of citizens without a connection to the sewage system (6.6 million) remained substantially stable compared to 2020 (when it was 11.3% of the total), the same cannot be said for the number of managers. Despite still still the service with the highest numbers of operators, the absolute value of these in 2020 dropped by 265 units for a total of 1.866with the activities that are carried out in 99.5% of Italian municipalities with complete or partial coverage of the territory.
Entering more specifically of the data just exposed, it is clear that in the progress of Italy there are well 41 Municipalities in which the sewage service is completely absent. In this case, 307 thousand inhabitants (0.7% of the national population) are concerned. The factor is very accepted in some areas of the country such as the Sicilywhere there are 26 of the 41 sewers without sewerage (6.7% of the regional population).
The partial coverage of the Italian sewer service
In addition to the areas in which no type of connection to the sewage public network is active, all those municipalities in which the same cannot cover the entire municipal area (coverage partial). These are areas usually characterized by scattered, mountain or difficult houses accessible.
And again, cases of the discomfort in question also concern all those inhabited centers in which, despite the sewage network has been activated, there is still theabsence of exercise of the same because of the non -connection to a purifier.
In each of the cases described, the absence of connection to public sewers obliges to manage urban waste water through the help of autonomous disposal systemslike private imhoff tanks.
The distrust of tap water and high costs
Two other factors also emerge from the study produced by Istat, or the still high distrust of citizens towards thetap water And the general belief that the bills connected to consumption are too high.
Entering more specifically, the 28.7% of the Italians (stable data compared to 2023) declares that he does not trust drinking tap water, with the greatest distrust recorded in the islands (49.5%) against what happens in the north – east (18.4%). By connecting this data to that of the sewage network previously described, it is not difficult to understand why: in Sicily 50% of citizens are not sure in drinking tap water, in Sardinia 48.2% and in Calabria 39.9%.
Finally, four out of 10 Italian families consider the costs for the delivery of the water that is too high, with the major percentages of dissatisfied which are always recorded in the islands 55.2% and in South 45.6%.
