The drought alarm also reaches the north-west of Sardinia. The three reservoirs of Temo, Cuga and Bidighinzu have a total filling percentage of 19% and the first to pay the price are the farmers: for them, the taps are closed and there is no water for irrigation.
"The situation is tragic because the Temo and Cuga are dry for the quota reserved for irrigation, the Region has closed the dam and this means that the agricultural sector will not be able to plan the 2025 irrigation season", denounces the president of Anbi Sardegna, Gavino Zirattu , who in recent days, together with the administrators of the Consorzio di bonifica della Nurra, met with the trade associations Coldiretti, Cia and Confagricoltura to explain the situation.
" The fate of hundreds of agricultural companies is at risk. Furthermore, with the interventions still underway on the Coghinas 1 aqueducts (which connects the Santa Maria Coghinas reservoir with the industrial area of Porto Torres) and Coghinas 2 (which supplies the Truncu Reale area to Sassari and Alghero) we are forced to divert the water of the Consorzio della Nurra from the Temo and Cuga to the Truncu Reale water purification plant", adds Zirattu. " So the little resource will be destined for drinking water and even if it were to rain, the pipes would not be able to guarantee the supply of the water purification plant and also irrigation, because they are the same ".
The solution could come from the use of waste water, which however has not yet been authorized : "We are in total uncertainty, there would be the waste water from Sassari, which however as usual are taken into consideration only at the height of the emergency, as happened in the last irrigation season. Then the rains arrive and the issue is set aside", Zirattu continues. At the moment there is no management plan for purified waste water which, according to an Anbi estimate, "would allow us to recover 500/600 liters per second, counteracting the deficit in water needs in agriculture".
(Online Union)
