crisi idrica

With Minister Lollobrigida, as we know, the last gaffe is always the penultimate.In the sense that the owner of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, as well as brother-in-law of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, produces continuously.But that of May 10th, pronounced to the question time session of the Senate, according to which "fortunately the drought this year has affected some areas of the South and Sicily in particular", deserves particular attention.First of all why, how remember The paper, the lack of water has repercussions on agriculture in general and specifically on viticulture, perhaps the sector that is closest to Lollobrigida's heart, as well as on forage and therefore on farms, as underlined by Coldiretti, the association more listened to by the minister. But above all because the drought follows the "palm line".The expression was invented by Leonardo Sciascia in the book The day of the owl to theorize, already in the 1960s, the advanceme...

I am 52 million people in Europe living in areas considered to be under water stress for at least one month a year:of these, 28%, approximately 15 million, are located in Italy.The trend is worsening, and these numbers are destined to grow in the coming years.According to the United Nations Mediterranean Programme, water demand will double or even triple by 2050.World Water Day is celebrated on March 22nd, established in 1992:every year we talk about the importance of protecting this fundamental resource, but then the data we find before our eyes are increasingly worrying. The water crisis is not coming.It's already here “We continue to address the water issue with an emergency approach:little is said about the importance of protecting this common good, except when it is in short supply", says Stefania Di Vito of the scientific office of Legambiente, an expert in the uses of water resources.“Public discourse is too centered on the logic of accumulation:there is a lot of talk a...

On Thursday 1 February, Catalonia launched thedrought emergency, after experiencing the second month of the hottest year ever recorded in the area with thresholds above 0.8 degrees centigrade compared to the average temperature recorded from 1991 to 2020.The decision came from the administration after having noted a reduction in the reserves of the water basins outside below the 16% threshold indicated in the Drought Plan, and has led to the application of numerous measures to deal with the water crisis that is affecting the region, and involving approximately 6 million people.The measures taken include limiting water consumption for agriculture, industry and private use with a view to "growing pressure to accelerate adaptation efforts".The Copernicus study center is monitoring the situation, and has presented a study to analyze how Catalonia is adapting to the emergency situation. The study conducted by Copernicus and published in collaboration with the newspaper Euronews an...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. While Italy continues to grapple with the water crisis and lack of rainfall, the Council of Ministers of 6 April he approved the so-called "Drought Decree", a decree-law which introduces "urgent provisions for the prevention and fight against drought and for the strengthening and adaptation of water infrastructure".The measure had been announced more than a month ago, March 1st. Substantially, the decree law centralizes the management of decision-making processes - the government speaks of a "simplified regime that refers to the PNRR model" - through the establishment of a control room and the appointment of a National Extraordinary Commissioner for water scarcity, who will be able take the place of local authorities in the event that the time required for the works to be carried out should be extended, and identifies some lines of intervention to "increase the resilience of water systems to...