Palermo. The Sicilian government sent to Rome on Wednesday all the documentation necessary to obtain the declaration of a national state of emergency due to the drought in Sicily. In the dossier, the solutions proposed by the control room led by the President of the Region and coordinated by the head of the regional Civil Protection to quickly put a stop to the crisis due to the lack of rain. The working group, also engaged in continuous meetings these days, has identified the necessary interventions, differentiated according to the implementation times. Among those rapidly implemented, the purchase of new tankers for Sicilian municipalities in crisis, the regeneration of wells and springs and the restoration of abandoned ones, the strengthening of pumping systems and existing pipelines, the construction of new pipelines bypass. For the next few months, however, we are evaluating the renovation and restart of the Porto Empedocle watermaker, in the Agrigento area, and one of the two in Trapani and Gela, an operation that will require longer times and tender procedures.
