Analyst estimates the drought has caused €3-billion of damage to Italian crops, with yields for maize and wheat already down 30 per cent
In Rome, the waters of the Tiber are so low that tourists are flocking to see the newly exposed ruins of a bridge built during the emperor Nero’s era. In Northern Italy, the Po – called, the king of rivers, by the ancient Roman poet Virgil – is drying up, exposing a sunken graveyard of wrecked vehicles and barges from the Second World War.
“The drought scares everyone,” he said in an interview with The Globe and Mail. “Unfortunately, we are moving toward a period of 10 or 15 days where temperatures should rise. I remember years ago it was hot, too, but it certainly rained more.” Farmer Fausto Venturi devotes his autumns to the olive harvest, but he fears he will face a lean harvest for a second year in a row.Coldiretti estimated that the drought has caused €3-billion of damage to Italian crops, with yields for maize and wheat already down 30 per cent.
Water restrictions have been imposed in dozens of municipalities in Northern Italy, and many towns are so short of water that they are bringing it in by truck. Some of these measures prohibit washing cars and watering gardens.
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