Breaking News: Prezza Desert Inaugurates Luxury Sports Facility Amid Water Crisis and Community Frustration
PREZZA – The new sports cathedral in the Prezza desert was inaugurated between fanfare, senators, and blessings: a facility of over 400 thousand euros including a swimming pool and a football field in a country that has neither a team nor sports schools. But now that the limelights have turned off, all the contradictions of a project emerge that risks becoming a symbol of waste and detachment from reality.
Mayor’s Ambitious Project Faces Criticism
Mayor Marianna Scoccia, who strongly wanted the work by also turning on a mortgage against the Municipality, kicked off an advertising campaign to promote the structure as a location for weddings, birthdays, and private events. The swimming pool has been equipped with sunbeds, and the soccer field, in a country of just 800 inhabitants mostly elderly, is offered as a frame for parties and ceremonies. The paradox is evident: while the management of the system has been entrusted to a private entity, which should also have taken on the promotion that, however, the Municipality of Prezza is concerned with supporting on its social pages. The private individual will collect, citizens will pay the mortgage.
Water Crisis Overshadows Celebrations
But the most bitter contradiction concerns water. Yes, because Prezza in recent months has experienced serious water disservices, with entire neighborhoods remaining without water due to Colabrodo, old pipes and never seriously renewed. While the residents deal with dry taps, a swimming pool is built – and yes, of water it will consume it all right – fueling a feeling of frustration and anger. All this happens while citizens will have to reimburse the mortgage on the work for years, without any guarantee on the social, sporting, or economic return of the investment. And the football field, in the meantime, remains without footballers.
Community Reacts to Misplaced Priorities
In a country where priority should be access to essential services, the choice of focusing on an image for use and consumption of a few appears to be disclosed by reality and deeply unfair. Is this the vision of development for internal areas? A swimming pool for tourists and private parties, while residents, very often, don’t even have water to cook or wash? If Prezza wanted a symbol, he had it. But he risks being the wrong symbol, of a policy more attentive to the immediate consent than to the well-being of the community.
Prezza’s new sports facility raises critical questions about the priorities of local governance and the balance between community needs and ambitious projects. The situation highlights the importance of sustainable development and the need for policies that prioritize essential services over extravagant initiatives.
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