Paradisiacal Beaches on One Side, Faecal Waters on the Other: Living without Sewers in Arona, One of the Main Tourist Municipalities of Tenerife

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A little more than 1.38 million tourists spent their holidays in 2024 in the municipality of Arona (almost 88.000 inhabitants), where there are tourist towns such as Playa de Las Américas, Los Cristianos or Costa del Silencio. Far from the seascapes of the coast and the smell of sunscreen, a group of neighbors from the upper part say that up to 20,000 residents of Arona Alta have been living without sewerage for more than 20 years. “We are betwe…