With a water deficit in the Apulian reservoirs of -154 million cubic meters of water and the suspension of water supply from Basilicata, the scenario in the fields in Puglia is worsening, with the strong criticality in the province of Taranto where the San Giuliano and Sinni pipelines are dry.
To report it again, on the basis of ANBI’s monitoring of water resources, is Coldiretti Puglia who participated in the council commission of the Puglia Region on serious water crisis in Puglia and in the Taranto countryside and on the critical situation of the reservoirs of the Central South Puglia Reclamation Consortiumin the presence of the Agriculture Councilor Donato Pentassuglia.
“There’s a irresponsible delay of 23 years in the management and planning of the ‘water asset’ in Puglia, because we cannot continue to chase emergencies.
At the start of the season, when the farmers have already started cultivation activities, here the most precious and indispensable element for agriculture is missing, the water to irrigate the fields.
In Taranto, if the water supply is not immediately reactivated, we will lose everything, from fruit to tomatoes, from vegetables to watermelons, up to olives and citrus fruits”, thundered the president of Coldiretti Puglia, Alfonso Cavallo, in asking for ‘an intervention by the president of the Puglia Emiliano Region compared to his colleague from Basilicata for the immediate restoration of the water service’.
