Unprecedented aridity dries up the springs, resurgences, wells and basins of Piedmont, Lombardy, Trentino and Veneto. The obsession is no longer to channel the waters, but to stop even a drop.
By Giampaolo Visetti (“La Repubblica”)
Por centuries, the inhabitants of the Alps and the Po plain have done everything to help the rivers and streams to flow towards the Adriatic. Today, this world of snow and water, blood that nourished all lands, is no more than a distant nostalgia. “The drought is so important that even the empty beds of the rivers leave us indifferent, laments Fabio Dosoli, boatman on the Po in Ostiglia. The drama is now underground and unfortunately invisible. »
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