It will be a dramatic spring and summer for the agricultural economy of the Island, especially in the North, in Nurra, between Alghero, Sassari, Porto Torres and Stintino, where the Cuga basin today reduced to little more than a large puddle, is no longer able to provide water to the horticultural crops that once - think of the artichokes of Ittiri - with hundreds of fertile hectares gave wealth to the entire territory.

"The situation is desperate," warns Gavino Zirattu, president of Anbi, the association of land reclamation consortia , "the last hope is the rain announced for the next few days, but honestly we are not very optimistic. We do not know if and how much it will arrive, if it will eventually be able to fill the lake a little, which currently has just 4.4 million cubic meters of resources, 21% of its capacity. The same goes for the Temo, which has half the water of a year ago in the same period, just 18% of its potential."

All the details in the article by Cristina Cossu in L'Unione Sarda, on newsstands and in the app.

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