(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 21 - The government on Tuesday said it
would name a national water crisis commissioner to deal with
Italy's drought emergency and other water issues until the end
of the year.
The office of Premier Giorgia Meloni announced: "a task force
(cabina di regia) to accelerate and coordinate the planning of
infrastructural interventions in the medium and long term and,
in the short term, a national commissioner until 31 December
2023, with a renewable mandate and a very detailed perimeter of
competences."
The announcement came after a meeting of the steering committee
on the water crisis convened at Palazzo Chigi (Meloni's office)
and chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Infrastructure and
Sustainable Mobility Minister Matteo Salvini.
Among the other attendees were Agriculture and Food Sovereignty
Minister Francesco Lollobrigida and Civil Protection and Sea
Minister Nello Musumeci.
The commissioner, when they are named, "will be able to act on
high-risk local areas and will be able to free up short-term
interventions like demudding and degravelling of reservoirs,
increasing the capacity of reservoirs, management and use of
waste and run-off water, mediation in the case of conflicts
between regional and local bodies on water issues, and
reconnaissance of the national water requirement". (ANSA).
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