A crunch meeting will take place at
Rome city hall later on Tuesday to seek to find a way to prevent
water rationing for around 1.5 million people in Rome starting
later this week.
Water utility ACEA announced the plan after the Lazio region
government said it will be stopped from taking water from nearby
Lake Bracciano, the level of which has fallen significantly due
to the recent drought.
The move would see water being cut off for around eight
hours, mostly in the night and in the morning.
ACEA and the regional government are both taking part in the
meeting.
Water is already been rationed to users in around 20 towns in
the province of Rome.
The drought is not just hitting Rome.
The farmland of two-thirds of Italy is hit by drought and the
cost to Italian agriculture amounts to two billion euros,
according to farmers association Coldiretti.
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