Monitoring Apulia region coastline: A case study

Years of unbridled growth, with no respect for rules, in many cases due to the absence of effective monitoring tools, have produced in some localized areas of Italy the so-called eco-monsters, to which a state of widespread pollution due to multiple anthropogenic causes must be added. In this paper a review of current and emergent available techniques, materials and tools for water monitoring is presented; new solutions and designing criteria meeting low-cost specification are also proposed.