European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Rhe Tiller winds past some of Rome s most famous sign is. Sklut Dabove on one Bendol i in River is hip Casort sent Anglo. The tiber Rome wants cleaner River the associated Frew tin Liber shaving. Renaissance. Once the River was he lifeline of Rome from ancient limes to just ,1 Century ago romans bathed fished hid washed their dollies in in komi1 unplanned development Boom after w Tild War ii however proved Scio much fur Hie River. In 20 years the population swelled from 1 million to More 3 million. And inday anyone foolish enough 1u Sevim in hit tiber risks fatal inflation from the untreated Hal pours into it daily romans no longer Are in the habit of going Down to ttu1 River a so Roll hurt1 Nitani Siil step Ini Brokon Bullus into Syria a s d by drug a Litls. But Tibor lovers now hope1 tie the is Lurn Inu in Ilia Jol Lulion line Neitli Tsenlu. Wild in Rye on Dovi Lopen tin Irvil for i j when Rome Homs hit world cup soccer Kiminis tin cily offered free till rho it rides Lurins tuly tin1 response a is so set it Thi a motion was extend Tel Inlo soph Nib f. F ii sets sold out for sunt t Tulsi i to the rom tit Simlin of ,1 person no re at tin1 roman Uphill Imti f in Ostia an1if,i, Iht-1 Tibt r s inc enl Stirt i till. Be a k is Nikki to found Young Ali dying Cir Ali and pm i is Lind. Flu fish will r Lurn thru will by pm sure . 1 hit Imi l the i . But the arc s to believe the tiber can be Liv in i for and ," Ati ratio 5, Misirli .1 Engineer Iii l professor Al Rome s in a i University. While Benito Mussolini Kul to cd Rcd Llie River and la Neil swimming ind transport in t 2-l, Misiti noted Post Cwm Ovi Ruments a lion l get around to prohibiting tie dumping Jiff St Woski into the tiber a Natl 1976. In 1974, Rome started building the first Purifico Alvoil Plant Misirli s incl now there Ife four , but they Tan Only handle a bit less than half the , find Ihal s just Calkins Aboul waste not into usury s. Ivsich is supposed in be handled by the Faith rims Misiti said the Sendre fat lilies should in finished by 1 jt2, and after the tiber should return to lust outside the cily Fisherman pull in edible calf from the River which begins is 251 -mill.1 course in the etruscan apennines. Ruggeri of Hie world wildlife fund says the City or he most part does t enforce regulations forcing factories to purify their wastes before spilling them Inlo the tiber. Since 11 �2, her a Rou has rented from the cily a Strelch of River link and intends to keep Ilas a Green Oasis. Willows poplars even .1 Fig tree Lenn end to the water making thai stretch look More like Mark Twain s Mississippi than a River through a noisy International cily. Very week volunteers come to clean in Anil every week we find a Mountain of garbage Rugguri said. Until about n a Colury ago the City spilled Down to Hie River Banks leaving Rome vulnerable to devastating floods. Really if government decided to Wall off Hie tiber and demolish building at River level. Now and cars move along at Bridge deck level Wilh Hie tiber s murky Green Withers Oul of sight below. Earlier this year when the City planned its annual april 21 celebrations of the legendary founding of Rome by Romulus along Hie left Bank of the tiber in hosted an exhibit Aboul excavations done in the last 10 years when the River became a department Wilheln Hie cily s Superine Nuncy of archaeology. Tourists walking along the River can see the excavation of a three level storehouse for jars of Oil wine and fish sauce left dockside by barges at Hie ancient port near what is now Tesla Iii a Blue Collar workers neighbourhood. In the past the cily lived on its River. Rome was a kind of Venice a Copenhagen a London or a Paris said Claudia Rocchegiani Carpano head of the City s underwater archaeology department. A thousand years from now when they dig up artefacts from if 20th Century they la find out thai the tiber just ran through Rome and served As a 22 Itri prs Madaii
