Actuality
Last May 20th, a meeting chaired by the Prefect, Daniela Lupo, was held at the Prefecture of Trapani, with the participation of the Commissioner for the drinking water emergency, General Secretary of the Basin Authority, Eng. Leonardo Santoro, of the Cabin Coordinator director, General Director of the Regional Department of Civil Protection, Eng. Salvatore Cocina, the Operational Director of Siciliacque, Eng. Massimo Burruano, the President of the Territorial Water Assembly, Mayor of Calatafimi Segesta, Francesco Gruppuso together with the mayors of the municipalities of the province , in order to monitor the status of mitigation interventions relating to the drought emergency that affected the province of Trapani, also following the civil protection ordinance issued last May 19th, with which the national state of emergency was declared .
The mayors and their delegates represented the problems arising from the reduction of water supplies, especially in view of the start of the tourist season.
The engineer Cocina communicated that the control room established by the President of the Sicilian Region is selecting the priority interventions among those proposed by the provincial table at the Civil Engineers, by the ATI and by the managers, in order to identify additional readily available water sources.
He highlighted the difficulties caused by the lack of data on water currently available and supplied to the network, a shortage also connected to the absence, in the province of Trapani, of the single manager of the integrated water service.
The Eng. Santoro urged the issuance of specific union ordinances to force citizens to use drinking water responsibly, in order to avoid waste, on the basis of the handbook already distributed by the Basin Authority, and also represented that the implementation interventions not immediate, promptly proposed by the municipalities through the ATI, will be able to access sources of state funding in addition to the funds already allocated by the Sicilian Region.
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