No beach in Moldova has sanitary permit

No river or lake in Moldova is ready for summer. The leisure areas are not prepared, do not have sanitary endorsements from the Health Ministry, and those 18 life-guard stations do not match requirements, said Health Vice Minister Mircea Buga at the sitting of the Emergency Commission, convened on June 28 by Premier Zinaida Greceanai, Info-Prim Neo reports. Mircea Buga has said those 3-4 thousand people resting on Vadul-lui-Vods's beaches every weekend expose themselves to enormous risks, because the water does not match sanitary norms, and it is forbidden to swim in it. They even found cholera germs near Tiraspol, he said. The Health Ministry is quite skeptical as to the state of waters in Moldova and does not think the situation could be improved soon, because of lack of funds. Asked by the premier, the Environment Minister, Violeta Ivanov, has said 21,500 projects were carried out ion this respect for the last a year and a half. According to her, children and locals were employed to clean most of the river banks. The Ministry believes investments should be made in large entities, not in small ones, and thus the results will be visible. Greceanai charged deputy premier Victor Stepaniuc to be in control of the agencies responsible for the situation. They are to make tidy beaches, to set up life-guard stations and to monitor the environment situation in water basins. Earlier this week, the Chisinau local services started to renew the sand on beaches in three parks, as the Municipal Council earmarked 1.29 million lei in this respect.