Italy's long-running drought is a result of climate change, meaning the country must adjust to the new reality, Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida told Reuters.
Lollobrigida said Italy needed to build more basins to capture rainwater, urgently patch up leaky water networks, repair dams and consider removing traditional, but thirsty crops away from increasingly arid areas., who is a senior member of the ruling, nationalist Brothers of Italy party.weather has raised fears that 2023 could be even worse, alarming both the agricultural and industrial sectors that depend on copious water supplies.
He added that Italy needed to construct more pools to collect rainfall, saying precipitation had not radically decreased, but came in shorter, sharper bursts, as happened last week in the northern"We have a water catchment of just 11% and therefore we do not keep rainwater," he said. Despite acknowledging that man-made climate change was to blame for the drought, the minister brushed aside criticism that the government was looking to hobble EU efforts to cut carbon emissions and green the economy.that the European Union dilute a directive aimed at improving the energy efficiency of buildings, water down plans to phase out combustion engine cars and question a drive to slash industrial emissions.
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