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🔆Mortara - Italy
âś…The worst drought Italy has faced in 70 years is thirsting paddy fields in the river Po valley and jeopardizing the harvest of the premium rice.
✅Italy’s largest river is turning into a long stretch of sand due to the lack of rain, leaving the Lomellina rice flats — nestled between the river Po and the Alps — without the necessary water to flood the paddies.
âś…The lack of rainfall has brought governors of various Italian regions to declare a state of emergency in order to conserve water and coordinate the management of minimal resources.
✅The region’s main water sources, the rivers Po and Dora Baltea, are eight times lower than the average seasonal levels.
▪️Po River Basin
âś…The Po River is the longest river in Italy (661 km)
âś…It originates from Pian del Re of Monte Viso, and flows eastward till the Adriatic Sea near Venice
âś…The basin population is close to 17 million inhabitants, almost 1/3 of the population of Italy.
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