2023 - Where is the cleanest sea in Italy?

2023 – Where is the cleanest sea in Italy?

Vita gazette – The 2023 results are based on monitoring the concentrations of Escherichia coli and intestinal enterococci. In general, the picture that has emerged is positive. The quality of marine bathing waters is of a good standard in all regions, with percentages of amazing coastline exceeding 85% and peaks exceeding 99%.

In 2022, over 30,000 samplings were carried out nationwide to assess the sanitary quality of bathing water. Further microbiological analyses were conducted over four years (2019-2022) by the SNPA to determine the cleanest sea in Italy.

The data were presented in Bari during a press conference in the presence of the president of the Puglia region, Michele Emiliano, the regional councillor for the environment, Anna Grazia Maraschino, the general manager of Arpa Puglia, Vito Bruno, the scientific director of Arpa Puglia, Vincenzo Campanaro, and the director of the Arpa Puglia Regional Sea Center, Nicola Ungaro.

The checks also concern lakes and, in a few cases, rivers, where some regions reach 100% excellent waters. The third good news is that Italian waters are better than the average of the countries of the European Union, according to the data processed by the European Environment Agency cited on the Snpa website.

Puglia Sardegna Toscana

The 2023 samplings have already started for several weeks and will continue throughout the summer. The results of the analyses are published on the websites of the individual Arpa (Regional Agency for the Protection of the Environment) and on the “Acque” portal of the Ministry of Health. To protect the health of bathers, surveillance monitoring is also envisaged to identify any potentially toxic algal species.

The ranking of the regions with the cleanest sea in Italy. Bringing up the rear is Sicily, followed by Campania, Emilia Romagna, Abruzzo and Lazio. Liguria is a tenth place, with 91.4% of bathing waters considered excellent.

Calabria ranks ninth, with 91.6%. Then we have Veneto in eighth place, with 91.8% of the coasts with a perfect sea. Basilicata is seventh in the ranking dedicated to the cleanest sea in Italy thanks to its 93.7% of beaches with ideal bathing waters.

Position number 6 for Friuli Venezia Giulia. Its bathing waters obtained the following results: 93.8% excellent, 5.6% good and 0.4% poor. We find the Marches in fifth place, with 97.6% of bathing waters considered outstanding. Just off the podium is Molise, with excellence attributed to 98.5% of its bathing waters.

Molise Marche Friuli Venezia Giulia

In third place, with slightly better data than Molise, is Tuscany, with a percentage of 98.6%. Sardinia ranks second with a very high rate of 99.3%. Once again (the third in a row), Puglia prevails in first place in Italy, with an excellent bathing water quality of 99.8%.

Basilicata Veneto Calabria

As mentioned, at national level the quality of the sea is excellent along approximately 5,000 of the 5,300 kilometers of Italian coast, which represent 95.5% of the total. The remaining 2.7% is of good quality (144 kilometres), while 0.8% (43 kilometres) is classified as sufficient or poor.