{"id":8712,"date":"2012-03-24T12:59:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T12:59:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-24T12:59:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T12:59:36","slug":"quality-of-beaches-\u2013fecal-coliforms-and-intestinal-enterococcus-indicators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndiqparate.al\/?p=8712&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Quality of beaches \u2013Fecal Coliforms and Intestinal Enterococcus Indicators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Albania is a country blessed with a coastline of 316 kilometres, where there are a lot of sandy and rocky beaches making it one of the preferred choices over the summer holidays. However, rapid urban development have contributed not a little on its purity. Ionian and Adriatic Sea are nowadays hosts of urban discharges, industrial, agricultural or livestock.  In these seas the level of pesticides and chemicals from agricultural raw, organic wastes, which contain phosphorus and nitrogen, pathogenic viruses and bacteria, heavy metals is going out of control. <\/p>\n

The growth of population in some urban cities has made impossible the process of self-cleaning, because of large amounts of urban discharges. Besides these factors, which should have been under the management and control of local governments, the long list of added endless rubbish left everywhere along the coast, including one of the main enemies of marine life, plastic bags.<\/p>\n

But pollution from direct discharges into the sea or fertilizers is not the main cause. Pollution of rivers, especially in rural areas, where the valleys are often waste landfills is another source of impurity. And also pollution of groundwater provides its influence in this great vortex. In summary we can say that Albanian beaches are in great danger. If some of them are still under pollution limits, it does not come because of their careful management, but simply because of non massive frequentation.<\/p>\n

Two of the most important indicators of marine water quality, which are related to the micro organisms associated with fecal contamination, are: fecal Coliforms – FC) and intestinal Enterococus – IE. Our analysis is focused mainly on these two indicators because the biggest source of seas pollution which is source of infectious disease is the pouring of the sewage. From the data of the Public Health Institute, the most polluted beaches are: Durres, Kavaja, Vlora and Saranda. Borshi, Dhermi, Shengjin, Velipoja Himara remain the beaches of a better quality. <\/p>\n

Durres Beach:<\/span><\/p>\n