Sixteen days after the inauguration of the regional control roomdesired by the governor Renato Schifani to “identify and coordinate rapid and concrete interventions against the drought emergency”, theOrder of Geologists of Sicily complained about the absence of its representatives in the task force. Many engineers but no geologist, he contested theOrgsthan with the regional president Mauro Corrao he explained: “Maybe I misunderstood, it’s not an emergency water but hydraulics“.
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Still no intervention against the drought in Sicily
With summer just around the corner, they are still missing effective interventions. The Region only communicated, about ten days ago, the first solutions to intervene quicklybut since then the only event that has affected the team has been the suspension of the now former Agriculture Councilor, Luca Sammartino, who was a member. “It is clear that at the gates of the hot season, at least more than the others, the water problem addressed to any user, be it a farmera breeder or a common citizenmust be faced, also because, as always, we have realized that we are in emergency” highlighted the president of the Geological Order of Sicily. The solutions of the control room should allow immediate intervention, but according to Mauro Corrao, they underestimate “the establishment of new problems In the medium-long term“.
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There are many engineers in the control room, but no geologist
Going to focus on the control room for drought, i Sicilian geologists they find that “this is made up, among others, of university teachers. The thing that catches the eye, at least to me” continues the president Mauro Corrao “is that among the university professors there is no not even a geologist. Why?”. The order has took an official position to highlight the absence of own representativestherefore skills, within the task force regional against drought. “We geologists know it well the hydrogeological structure of the Sicilian territory. All thematic geological, hydrogeological maps, vulnerability of aquifers, etc. throughout Sicily, they were produced by universities Of geology Of Palermo, Catania And Messina. But perhaps, given the constituents of the cabin, I misunderstood; the emergency is not water but hydraulic”.
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Drought in Sicily, nothing done against network dispersion
Together with management bodies hey labor unionsme too’Order of Geologists of Sicily he expressed his opinion on the regional water networks, which have been reduced to a “sieve”. He did so by recalling the 2019 data on the volumes of water dispersed in the regional network, equal to 44.7%detected by Acea Ato. “Meanwhile, as I write, the water pipes of the managers we pay are leaking water underground due to lack of maintenance” highlighted Mauro Corrao. In reality, 2022 Istat data indicate that Sicily has now lost online 52.5%. While we know from Ato Environment that in the province of Catania the dispersion of water exceeds 70%.
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Drought: the latest on water management bodies in Sicily
“There sustainable management of water includes the theme of containment of losses on distribution networks. With the aim of recover you need as much of the resource as possible first intervene on water networks. How come various spas And managers of Sicilian waters don’t they do it?” asked the president of the Orgs. The Region is objectively late on the issue of single managers. “Filling a delay of years” reads a note sent from Palermo following the intervention of the Energy Councilor Roberto Di Mauro to Ecomed “the scope of Syracusethe competition is underway for that of Messinawhile for Trapani the intervention of the national government was requested. Furthermore, this year the implementing decree for the use of purified waste water which allows the effective use of this resource for agricultural uses, industrial and in construction sites“.
