Are public showers necessary on the beach? This is the question we ask ourselves after Environmental Education Association (Adeac), the one we know for The blue flagsproposes to eliminate them to Do not waste water. Sanxenxoin Pontevedra, it is one of the municipalities where they have already retired. Now, Every year they save up to 3,500,000 liters. Or in other words, so that we can get an idea, with that water an Olympic and medium pool could be filled.
Therefore, we have approached the playa To ask the same question to the bathers: Is it necessary that there are public showers on the beaches?
Most of the answers have been against. The phrase “It doesn’t seem good to me” It has been the most repeated. In fact, in the beaches of Valencia It has cost us to find someone who was in favor of the measure.
The same, in Cádiz. Although, when we include the argument of the drought and the need to save waterit seems that the answers change. “Man, if there are years of drought and you can’t, you can’t. But when there are years that it rains a lot, like this, because they are used, “explains one of the users.
But that, perhaps, is the error. We cannot think that the rains of recent months are normal in Spain. “Water this year we have it very well, but It will continue to be a problem“, José Palacios, president of Adeac. And therefore, ask the municipalities that showers are eliminated on the beaches. Something that has already occurred in Sanxenxobecause there, four years ago, the City Council, which is the one who has competitions, decided to remove them.
“We take the measure of removing the beaches and replacing them with Lavapiés in 2021. We consume about 4,000,000 liters and now we consume less than 500,000,” explains Juan deza, councilor of Tourism and beaches of Sanxenxo. That is, with this measure In Sanxenxo, about 3,500,000 liters save every yearonly in beach showers.
Despite this, for the moment, it seems that more pedagogy will have to be done, so that Each drop has. Because as they have told us: “I take a shower in my house, but there are lots of families who come with the creatures and already take shower, picked up and nothing more than to sleep to sleep.”
