With a water deficit in the Apulian reservoirs of -154 million cubic meters of water compared to 2023 and the suspension of water supply from Basilicata, «the scenario in the fields in Pugliawith the strong criticality in the province of Taranto where the San Giuliano and Sinni pipelines are dry.”
Coldiretti’s complaint
This was reported on the basis of Anbi’s monitoring of water resources Coldiretti Puglia who participated today in the Agriculture council commission of the Puglia Region on the «serious water crisis in Puglia and in the Taranto countryside and on the critical situation of the reservoirs of the Single Consortium for the reclamation of Central South Puglia».
«There is an irresponsible delay of 23 years in the management and planning of water resources in Puglia, because we cannot continue to chase emergencies. Once the season has begun, when farmers have already started cultivation activities, the most precious and indispensable element for agriculture, water to irrigate the fields, is missing. 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”, said the president of Coldiretti Puglia, Alfonso Cavallo, in asking that ” an intervention by the president of the Puglia Emiliano region compared to his colleague from Basilicata for the immediate restoration of the water service”.
Councilor Pentassuglia
With the Pnrr there are around 300 million euros for irrigation networks and 100 million for water reuse: this was said by the Apulian regional councilor for Agriculture, Donato Pentassuglia, during the hearings in the council commission on the water crisis in Puglia. «Our political direction – said Pentassuglia – is to get everything up to speed, verify why the funding has not been used, we need to have the entire reference framework clear, it doesn’t take much, it takes good will”. «A thorough reuse of the purification waters greatly benefit us”, he added. The councilor said that it will be necessary to bring all the abandoned works back into operation in a short time, with the help of reports from the Municipalities.
