A report published on the website of the newspaper QuiFinanza indicates that this new desalination plant will be the largest of its kind in Italy and, when completed in 2026, will have the capacity to process 55,400 cubic meters of water per day, which is a lot This corresponds to the needs of 385,000 people.
In fact, as mentioned earlier, among the decisions taken at the last meeting of the Control Room on the Water Emergency at the headquarters of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers was to “priority seawater desalination projects” as a tool to deal with this serious problem.
In this sense, it is being considered to extend this program at national level, with initiatives already underway in the southern Sicilian island of Lipari, as well as in the northern region of Tuscany, while considering the installation of other desalination plants in Liguria , Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia. Julia, adds the source.
Francesco Vincenzi, President of the National Association of Consortia for the Protection of Irrigated Waters (ANBI), recently warned that the drought in Italy in 2023 is more severe than the drought at the same stage in 2022 and will worsen in the coming months more severe economically Damage.
“If last year’s drought cost the country’s system 13 billion, things are likely to get worse in 2023 until the essential plans and measures to increase resilience to the climate crisis come into effect,” Vincenzi said.
The provisions of the so-called drought decree, adopted by the Italian Council of Ministers on April 6, include the construction of desalination plants, the development of hydraulic infrastructure, the increase in reservoir volume and the reuse of treated wastewater for irrigation.
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