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#Italy: Another drought year in the Po River Valley. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation

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🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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#Italy: Another drought year in the Po River Valley. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/17/italy-faces-another-year-severe-drought-little-winter-rain-snow-po-river


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This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batser. The climate. Italy. I welcome the Rens

0:40.8

Up Fiori of the Enzouda Foundation, who in his drive from Genoa to Milan and Melonda

0:45.8

Genoa, observes the Po River Valley, the critical water for the agriculture of the North

0:51.3

of Italy, for hydro power and for a sense of all is well. Not right now. Lorenzo, a very

1:00.3

good evening to you. Thank you for this. The meteorologists are reporting a drought.

1:05.0

A drought in the Po River Valley, similar to what we observed last year. What is the

1:09.8

prospect for this summer? Good evening to you.

1:12.3

Good evening, John and good evening to all the radio listeners. Well, I can tell you that

1:17.2

in the north of Italy, particularly the west side, so the region of Milan, Lombardia and

1:23.7

the region of Turin, Piemonte, the situation is dramatic. The level of any river is below

1:32.5

the typical lowest level that normally happens at the end of summer time. But we are in the

1:39.5

winter time. We are in the period that normally we were expected to have a lot of rainfall

1:47.2

and a lot of snowfalls. We don't have rain, we don't have snow on the north of Italy.

1:54.1

While the situation in the century and in the south of Italy is totally different. There

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