Dry wheat fields, beach houses without water: the summer of great thirst in Sardinia

Months without rain affect the wheat year. In the Middle and Lower Campidano and Trexenta, among the most important areas dedicated to cereal cultivation, they are already dealing with a losing season (yet another) for growers who, a few weeks after the start of the harvest, fear the verdict of combine harvesters: a harvest more than halved is expected.

Far from the fields, in the seaside houses of areas with a tourist vocation such as Baronia and Ogliastra, which have resources guaranteed by the basins only until the beginning of August, a summer season with heavy water restrictions is predicted, so much so that some entrepreneurs are thinking to invest in sea water desalinators so as not to close the taps.

A red warning light for drought in those areas? In Tertenia, in the Marina di Sarrala, salt water is already reaching homes.

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