Yesterday afternoon, around 4 o'clock, while walking along Las Cucharas Avenue, it was possible to notice on some fences that indicate to us in small letters the "little suitability" of bathing in the waters of this popular beach. It seems to us, at the very least, an attack not only on the very nature of this environment, but on all those who go there to enjoy it, that sewage has been dumped, again.
But beyond this, it seems to us that a crime is being committed against public health when, knowing for certain that the Entereococos bacteria (facultative anaerobic gram-positive microorganisms that cause various infections, including endocarditis, urinary and intra-abdominal infections, prostatitis, etc.) is rampant in the waters of this busy beach, it is not closed to bathers so as not to cause alarm.
At that time, multiple bathers could be observed in the water; families with their children happily enjoying what they believe to be safe water and environment, but the truth is that they were bathing in a breeding ground that may well end up taking a bacteriological infection as a souvenir of their vacation.
When we called the councilor of the beach area of the Costa Teguise City Council, Don Eño Robaina, not without some sarcasm he informed us that everything is under control and that the only thing to do was to warn of the possible danger, but in no case to close the beach, and that the lifeguards were warned of what was happening. Sadly, and driven by the smell, we doubt the veracity of his words and approached the lifeguards, who assured us that, indeed, there was a spill and that the waters were not visitable. That is to say, that we could not bathe, and that is why the red flag has been raised, not because of the currents, but because of the prohibition to bathe.
Of course, no one had warned the bathers that this prohibition had to do with the state of infection in which the sea is currently found.
