"The science is very clear", the climatic events that are occurring all over Europe "threaten food security. Let's look at the soils: 70% are in bad condition and this limits the production of food in certain areas. Let's look at the pollinators: " .
Thus the vice president of the EU Commission, Frans Timmermans, at a press conference
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"If now is not the time" to act on the climate, "when?" He added.
ANSA agency
A "water plan" against drought.
Enel's alarm on Lombardy - Chronicle
"The summer has not yet begun and we are in the absence of water resources, it is the perfect storm".
So Meuccio Berselli, general secretary of the Po-MiTE River District Authority, in a video update on the severe drought situation in the Po valley.
It is the perfect storm, he explains, "because in the last 6-8 months the winter snow has peaked at minus 60-70%," negatively affecting the "storage of water needed to fill large regulated lakes. Second, it hasn't rained in the Po basin for at least 120 days. Third, temperatures are 3-4 degrees higher than the average for the period ".
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