Gualtieri: 'Within five years we will be able to bathe in the Tiber'

"We have already set up a working group that will soon be inter-institutional, I have spoken personally with Minister Pichetto Fratin and with President Rocca, so together with the government and the Region this table will work for the necessary investments" and "we are pleased to have already noted that it is absolutely a feasible objective: within five years we will be able to make the Tiber bathing".

This was said by the Mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, on the sidelines of the event 'The Eternal City Welcomes the Future. Attractiveness, culture, beauty and innovation' organised at the Italian Pavilion of Expo 2025 Osaka. As for the cost, the mayor of Rome said, 'we are estimating it', but it should be lower than in Paris, because the French capital 'started from a much higher level of pollution'.

'In reality,' said Gualtieri, 'there are some areas (of the Tiber, ed.)' that 'on some days would already be swimmable,' but 'in order to have full bathing facilities also for the stretch downstream of the Aniene, some interventions are needed. "Some of them have already started because the metropolitan city police are already carrying out a screening of all the discharges on the Aniene that are also outside the territory of Roma Capitale and that are among the main causes of the current non-bathing," Gualtieri added. The mayor of Rome explained that "we have already identified the three, four actions that are necessary" and "with all the help of the scientific and technological community and the institutions we will make a timetable, but from the first survey carried out it is an objective that is absolutely within our reach".