Safe and Guadiamar, two rivers that renacen

Spain has a big quantity of rivers in his territory, but in a lot of occasions do not receive the necessary cares and thus they go accumulating an excess of pollution, what no only affects of aesthetic form to the places by where pass, but also they turn into an important danger so much for the health of the citizens as for the one of the flora and fauna that lives in his surroundings. Nevertheless, also it is true that many of these situations are modified as it is the case of the Safe river and of the river Guadiamar, which nowadays present an appearance and positive development.

The most contaminated river of Europe

The Safe river passes by the city of Murcia, and does something more than 10 years found in a deplorable state because of the excessive pollution of his waters. Thus, go through this zone of the city was synonymous to go accompanied by a basket of eggs podridos.

But this does not remain here, since the fauna and flora of the same saw affected to such an extent that it was almost impossible to find an alone rincón where could develop. His waters lucían an unpleasant whitish foam in his surface, what obviously did that so many citizens like associations environmentalists put the cry in the sky since the authorities did not do at all to remedy the situation.

It was then when it began to realise an investment of 640 million euros for the construction of a total of 97 debuggers. It drained the river, cleaned his bottom and prevented that they continued the poured industrial, and thanks to this nowadays has an appearance much more appeal in addition to that numerous species that considered that they had disappeared returned again to this part of the Safe river.

Still it remains a lot of work by in front, but definitely is fantastic can see how the vegetation begins again to develop , the fishes swim now in his waters and even in the actuality can find eels, birds that live in his waters or even that use the zone like point of migration, and other a lot of animals that have achieved to change completely the image of this river that never had to lose his identity.

The poured toxic in Seville

And if we travel until Seville also can know another case that does years concerned a lot to the vecindad, and is the one of the river Guadiamar, which saw affected by the break of a raft that belonged to the company Boliden in which it accumulated water contaminated by the distinct pertinent waste of the minería.

The split of said raft did that along the river poured some 6 hm³ of water contaminated with distinct types of dangerous metals like the arsenic, the cadmium or the lead.

But no everything would remain here, since the pollution was extending until the point that the national park of Doñana ran also danger when seeing affected by said poured.

This situation was a true catastrophe especially for those that lived of the crops on foot of the river Guadiamar.

In total were necessary 90 million euros, but thanks to this in the actuality can see that all the course goes recovering of considerable form, in addition to that the worry by the health of his waters has increased and this has done that never before it have been known this river with the beauty that can enjoy nowadays.