Dry artesian wells in Puglia as the pockets of farmers forced to face rising prices while fruit trees are suffering,
vegetable gardens and stables where fodder is lacking including that for the bandaged, the wet hay useful for horses. This is what Coldiretti Puglia reports after that also
wells in Toritto, in the Bari area, are out of use in addition to those in Palo
del Colle e Noci, also in the province of Bari which should be remedied
the regional agency for irrigation and forestry activities (Arif).
For the agricultural association lThe lack of rain has led to a loss of water for the reservoirs amounting to 118 million cubic meters of water. «Puglia – highlights Coldiretti – has the sad national record of being the region of Italy where it rains the least but when it rains the water is not collected due to the lack of reservoirs» with the further risk “of desertification of 57% of the territory”. It is necessary “to take action once and for all by exploiting the resources of the Pnrr also to deal with the state of chronic emergency that our region endures, with enormous costs borne by all production sectors and the population itself”, claims the association agricultural sector which proposes «a plan of accumulation reservoirs with pumping to collect the water that falls and make it available for crops and to collect 50% of the rainwater which could be used for a variety of other uses, reducing the withdrawal than the drinkable one.”
