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According to the report published today by the EEA, climate change is making extreme weather events increasingly frequent

Despite being the fifth country in Europe for rainfall received, Italy does worse than everyone and retains just 4% of it

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Dry rivers, lakes below their usual levels, increasingly thin snowpacks, hydroelectric power at a standstill, agriculture in serious difficulty.The weekend will bring cold weather and probably snow and rain, but Italy and, in particular, the northern regions, are grappling with a prolonged lack of precipitation which heralds an alarming new year of drought. The dry Po is the worst crisis of the last 70 years The above-normal temperatures and the lack of rain in these winter months have dried out Northern Italy and the snowfall has been insufficient to replenish the waterways.According to data from the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences (ISAC) and the CNR, collected in the Drought Observatory bulletin, 2022 was the driest year since 1800 with a deficit of 30% at the end of the period.In the North the percentage of less rain rises to 40%:out of 12 months, only December was average.T...

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...

When heavy rainfall arrives after long periods of drought, water infiltration problems are created due to the rigidity of the soil