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October 20, 2019In this Italy divided into two from a meteorological point of view, a monitoring by Coldiretti highlights the anomalies of a crazy autumn that ranks among the top ten of the hottest since 1800 with temperatures of 1.27 degrees higher than the reference average on the basis of Isac Cnr data of September.It is a situation - underlines Coldiretti - that has triggered the drought emergency in Puglia, where farmers have been forced to irrigate aid to save the suffering crops, from vegetables to olive groves to fodder, with serious delays of sowing and an unbearable increase in costs. The wells - says Coldiretti - are working at full capacity, as in July, to irrigate the fields.
The Lucanian dams that quench the south, due to the lack of rain, are at levels from the historical low of the period with the six operational reservoirs in the region that collect just 200 million cubic meters of water, about 105 less than last year, while compared at maximum collection capacity, over 530 million cubic meters of water are missing in the Lucanian reservoirs.
Climate change is breaking down - continues Coldiretti - over a territory made weaker by overbuilding and the abandonment of marginal areas along the whole Peninsula, where there are 7,275 municipalities with part of the territory at hydrogeological risk, 91.3% of the total .