Government struggling with drought, a meeting will be held this week

A government meeting to

to deal with the emergency.

According to what is learned, the meeting will be held this week with the Executive which is closely monitoring the drought dossier.

The meeting should be attended by the Ministers of Agriculture Stefano

- who just yesterday had defined "inevitable" to declare a state of crisis - and of the Ecological Transition Roberto

.

The presence of the head of the Civil Protection Department Fabrizio

is also not excluded .

The news of the meeting comes after the

to the Executive for a rapid intervention aimed at facing the emergency.

To move first were the

: the Veneto already in recent weeks had asked for a state of emergency, but obtained a no from the government;

then Lombardy and Piedmont moved.

And in fact in the northern regions, Coldiretti still says, that spring rainfall has more than halved, with the territory gasping, exhausted by temperatures that are nothing short of unusual.

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But the

, with the Tiber Basin Authority complaining of having raised the drought alarm for several months and inviting us to move as quickly as possible so as not to have to chase emergencies.

Meanwhile

.

"We will ask for the maximum level of alert, the red one, and this will allow the government to intervene with the means of civil protection or to decide the uses of the water", said

, councilor for the environment of the Piedmont Region, in an interview to Rai News 24, on the subject of drought.

"In reality we intervened in two ways - he explained -, one for the drinking water crisis and the second for agriculture, for which we have already asked for a state of calamity, but it is used to pay for the posthumous damages to an event. let's try to anticipate. Then there are other medium and long-term actions to be implemented, otherwise the situation will become ordinary in the coming years ".

"

", underlined Marnati.

At the moment about

.

ANSA agency

In a small town in the Varese area, the fine is applied to those who water - Chronicle

It is forbidden to water orchards and gardens, wash the car and fill the swimming pools: the mayor of Tradate, in the province of Varese, has signed an ordinance to limit the waste of drinking water which provides for fines from 25 to 500 euros for those who do not respect the rules.

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"The problem - explained Marnati - is that now, with this heat, consumption for civilian use is increasing rather than decreasing. So some municipalities and some aqueducts have tried to intervene at night,

. For now, these are still cases. sporadic, but from the data we have these municipalities will probably multiply in the next few days. By doing so, at least at night we can refill some water in the tanks and then use it during the day ".