Keeping the beaches clean

I concur with Godwin Sammut's letter (August 26) regarding the mess left at Ghadira Bay, by people having beach BBQs. There is a need for strict regulations to be enacted to enforce the removal of BBQs, umbrellas, tents and deck chairs by 8 p.m. to enable the proper cleaning of the beach to be carried out.

Environmental wardens, perhaps accompanied by a police officer should be deployed to oversee this operation. Picnickers should be asked politely to clear and tidy up their area before leaving. Those who are making big money from this beach by hiring umbrellas, should be the first to realise that it is in their own interest to operate from a decently managed beach concession.

In other resorts one often sees a prominently displayed list of bye-laws, specifying what is allowable and what is not. Perhaps sea-side councils ought to be thinking on these lines, if we are ever to have clean and safe beaches, so necessary if we are to succeed in attracting foreign tourists to our shores.

We are dependent on tourism in a big way.

It is therefore incumbent on every one of us to behave responsibly by not muddying the water that ultimately we all have to drink from.