For drinking water at the moment the shifts concern 22 municipalities in the province of Frosinone, while another 18 have registered a lowering of pressure affecting a total of 21,000 people
The water crisis due to drought is spreading to central Italy, with Lazio, where shifts and pressure reductions have already taken place, as the epicenter. The Anbi, an association of land reclamation consortia, reports this in its observatory on water resources.
Shifts for drinking water have begun in Lazio
deepening
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The most serious situation is in the Castelli Romani area, where the two volcanic lakes, having no natural tributaries, mainly depend on rainfalls, which have dropped by over 75%, which is the worst figure since the beginning of the century. In the Alban Hills, about 180,000 people risk water shifts. For drinking water at the moment the shifts concern 22 municipalities in the province of Frosinone, while another 18 have had a lowering of pressure affecting a total of 21,000 people.
The situation in Lazio
deepening
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It is expected that in the Viterbo area, in the near future, 14 municipalities and 60,000 inhabitants will have problems with drinking supply, as well as 70,000 in the province of Rieti (today about 10,000 people have touched). The province of Rome is also in line with this negative trend, where water pressure has currently been reduced in the pipelines of 5 municipalities. Also rivers and basins in Lazio continue to decline dramatically, the Aniene has halved flow, the Tiber is at its lowest level in recent years, the Sacco is increasingly dry. The level of Lake Nemi plummets to -1.88 meters (last year it was at +1.6 meters) and Lake Bracciano also recorded a further decrease.
