Posted on 07/08/2022 10:40:08 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Governments from Portugal to Italy are calling on citizens to limit water use to a bare minimum due to severe drought and scarce rainfall.
The situation is most dramatic in northern Italy where unusually low levels of River Po – the country’s largest river, are transforming Italy’s largest fertile region, affecting crop production and threatening the densely populated region with a serious drinking shortage.1
Similar conditions are affecting River Dora Baltea. Together with River Po, Dora Balta feeds one of the most important agricultural regions in entire Europe.
Rivers and streams in the Po district are at critical levels due to scarce winter precipitation, both snow and rain, causing severe to extremely severe drought conditions not seen in the region in 70 years, Po River Basin Authority said.
More than 100 cities have been called on to limit water consumption as much as possible.
Tell me again how Putin isn’t winning?
Let them drink wine.
Well, since the Dutch and other EU countries are getting rid of farmers, fewer farms will need less water...
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I’m sure none of them are filling cisterns...even as we speak.
Northern Italy is pretty wet due to the rain / snow inducing effect of the Alps. It makes no economic sense to build multi billion dollar desal plants that are not needed until a 70 year occurrence drought.
What the world actually needs is nuclear power plants on barges with huge desal units on their turbine exhaust heat. This way you can build out a few of those and then tow them to where they might be needed for only a few months or a year then move on. This spreads the capital costs over a whole area and also allows for the Henry Ford method of manufacturing build them in a shipyard assembly line style using one certified design again and again if you need more power add more modules of the same reactor design. A 200mw aircraft carrier sized PWR would be in the 30000 ton class three of them would fit on a 90,000 ton barge that would still fit in the Panama Canal.
The Russians kicking our butts in nuclear technology yet again. This is exactly what needs to be done someone thought The same thing.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0011916492801494
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