ITALY: Declares State of Emergency-Severe Drought

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Quote[/b] ]Farmers have been fretting as Italy's largest river, the Po, has dried up in recent months. The river, running west to east across northern Italy, feeds the broad Po valley which accounts for about a third of the country's agricultural output.

Italy's hottest winter in 200 years meant snowfall was light in the Alps, with little snow-melt to swell the Po. Then a hot, dry spring set in, with temperatures in April approaching levels usually seen in June.

• Italy declares a state of emergency in northern, central regions hit by dry weather
• Precautionary measure follows Italy's warmest winter in 200 years
• Italy's largest river, the Po, dries up, threatening agricultural output
France has already imposed water rationing due to drought conditions.

* Dry Linkee * (http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/04/italy.drought.reut/index.html?eref=rss_topstories)

[kb2vxa]

Ah, the spaghetti crop failed, no wonder the price of the good stuff is out of sight.

Well John, what about the goat?

[KC2ESD]

Its because all the cold air last Winter was over New Jersey just to make me MAD.

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Quote[/b] (KC2ESD @ May 04 2007,23:00)]Its because all the cold air last Winter was over New Jersey just to make me MAD.
Cold air over New jersey ? When ? You call this past winter cold ? If you think that 20 degree wx was cold ?.. in the old days men would scoff at 20 degree weather. But back in those days men were made of iron.

[G0GQK]

Strange old weather isn't it. It's not being warm that's causing the problem, its lack of rain. It hasn't rained in Britain for a month now and my garden is like the Sahara desert.

The weather patterns around the world have changed, its pouring rain where they don't need water, and there's no rain where its dry.

Instead of wasting money on space technology and thinking of building space stations like pictures in boys comics the governments in areas of water shortages should be making equipment to distill good water from the sea or transporting ice from the Arctic and Antarctic.

The Sahara is getting bigger every year, its been growing for centuries and Africans will be arriving in Europe in their millions if the place cannot provide water and food.

Russia is underpopulated, during the latter years people have been leaving in thousands, its not a popular place to go on a package holiday either !

The weather is getting warmer in Russia but nobody wants to live there, plenty of open spaces, fresh air, the girls are nice looking and the Aral Sea is now filling up again. Some places are a bit toxic with radioactivity but who cares, you only live once !

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