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Time to clean Jaco Beach
Costa Rica maintains its image of a clean and green country, respectful of its natural resources, at the international level. However phenomena such as the growth of tourism resulting from this promotion and local governments that have not been prepared to deal with what the large numbers of tourists in their communities implies, has seriously affected the chances for some beaches to remain attractive for tourism.
For that reason, one of the most visited beaches in the country, Jaco Beach, due to the proceeds of an uncontrolled construction growth and tourism, has suffered serious setbacks and caused the beach to be extremely dirty.
Due to the foregoing, community organizations in the area, specifically in the canton of Garabito, have met with other neighborhood groups, tourism developers, municipal officials, public health and environmental institutions and the Office of the Ombudsman to take the necessary action to avert the pollution of this part of the country.
Jaco is currently one of the 13 beaches with the most fecal contamination. This occurred in part because of the large number of pipes that discharge sewage into its beach, which can generate serious health problems for its people and the tourists who visit.
In order to combat this wrong, monitoring was begun on 35 water treatment plants in the Canton to find out if they work as they should. Both the Environmental and Health Ministries pledged to track down the points of greatest water contamination.
All involved expressed great satisfaction with these actions and indicated that it is now an issue on which everyone is working, which does not put the onus on one particular place and also puts greater pressure on those people or companies that are not complying with the measures.
This is an initiative that should be implemented in all communities in Costa Rica regardless of whether it is a tourist area and so once and for all the enforcement compliance with the laws for access to a better quality of life.
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