In Italy it is not only the Italian rivers brought to their knees by the intense phenomenon of Droughtbut also the groundwater. In Tuscany, 700 million cubic meters of water are drained. It is the largest water reserve in the region, below the Piana di Lucca. It supplies the aqueducts of 4 provinces and quenches the thirst of more than 1 million inhabitants. Emilia Romagna is no exception.

Groundwater is essential for the water system. The disturbing data about their disappearance due to drought is alarming. They guarantee 84% of the drinking water requirement from Italy. Faced with drought, more and more water is withdrawn from the aquifers that are exploited and then reach great depths. To better understand what’s going on underground, you need to look above ground. In addition, when rainfall is scarce or absent, groundwater struggles to replenish. In Italy, just over 59 billion cubic meters of water is needed to replenish groundwater.

The answer to drought cannot be the culture of the well: deep water extraction also poses great risks to the hydrogeological balance. There is a need for a rational use of the surface resources, which must be increased. In addition, by reducing the percentage of water that ends up in the sea unused, also due to an overly watertight bottom. Today, of the 300 billion cubic meters of rain that falls in Italy, only 11% is retained, the rest is wasted.

Massimo Gargano, General Manager of Anbi

This is the sixth drought emergency in the past 20 years and has already caused about $2 billion in damage to agriculture. This year’s drought has new and absolutely serious features, because the absence of rain and snow also affects water reserves, mainly intended for drinking purposes, creating a shortage that will persist over time. By failing to intervene urgently with a stormwater harvesting infrastructure plan, such as the 10,000 ponds proposed by us and Coldiretti, the areas are exposed to the recurrence of increasingly devastating crises, as they fall into contexts already weakened by water.

Francesco Vincenzi, president of Anbi


Source: Lega Nerd

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