(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 22 - The water emergency could put 320 billion euros at risk between dewatering companies and the extended water supply chain, or 18% of Italian GDP, but the crisis can be responded to with the circular model of the 5Rs: Collection , Restore, Reuse, Recover and Reduce.
The operational proposal against waste and drought emerges from the White Book 2023 "Valore Acqua per l'Italia", created by the Observatory established by the Valore Acqua perl'Italia Community created in 2019 by The European House-Ambrosetti to represent the extended water supply chain in Italy .
The Whitebook was presented today, World Water Day.
To enable the smart and digital transition of the extended water supply chain, we also read in the White Book, it is necessary to better protect water infrastructures: also due to limited investments, the replacement rate of Italian water networks (25% are over 50 years old) is 3.8 meters per kilometer per year: at this rate, it would take them 250 years to fully maintain them.
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