“2024 has already reached a negative record: in Piedmont, only in the first 6 months of the year, there was the same amount of precipitation that usually occurs in a year. And the area in which we recorded the greatest amount of rain was the mountain area.” According to Barberopresident of Arpa Piemonte, describes a climate crisis that knows no middle ground. «The past two years were characterized by drought. This year the problem is the abundance of water».
An imbalance due to climate change which impacts the territory, especially the mountain ones. It rains more and more, causing saturation of the soil which is the basis of hydrogeological instability. «In recent years the soil was so dry that water struggled to infiltrate. Today the problem is the opposite, with increasingly saturated soils.” Furthermore, the power of thunderstorms tends to cover increasingly larger areas. «We are witnesses of this these days, the rainfall affected the Lanzo valley, the Orco valley and the Anzasca valley. A particular phenomenon, which was observed more rarely in the past.” The appeal to the institutions is clear. «It is necessary to promote adaptation policies to the climate crisis in the various sectors – concludes Barbero -. Because they will be more and more frequent.”
