(Finance) – “Water is a source of life, but it is an exhaustible resource. In our G7 Climate, Energy and Environment, last April, we created the Water Coalition: the goal are common strategies to define together paths of action with respect to climate change, which affects biodiversity, degradation and availability of the resource”. The Minister of the Environment and Energy Safety said so Gilberto Pichettointervening in the classroom parliamentary groups of the Chamber of Deputies at the Conference “Water: Care of resource and universal access“, On the eve of World Water Day.
“Italy wants to be in the front row,” explained the minister, mentioning the Euromediterranean forum on the water which will be held in 2026 in Rome and the second ministerial on the Union water for the Mediterranean, assigned to Italy always in the same year. “We carry on – said Pichetto – eighteen voluntary commitments of the Water Conference of New York of 2023, nine of the Mase and as many of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for a total financial commitment of 6 billion dollars. We are active in cooperation, a lot on the Balkans and with Africa in the context of Floor Mattei“.
On the state of the resource water In Italy, Pichetto cited the topics of the quality of water bodies, the reduction of losses and the participation of local realities. “In front of 42% of losses in the aqueducts,” he said, “the challenge is to exceed the current number of managers, reaching a hundred with robust shoulders to make big investments, renewing for example the aqueducts”. “Today – he added – the thousand gestions in economics are made either by those who have too much water or by those who do not have and nobody helps them. Here is the need to make a system”. Among the themes, Pichetto also recalled the purification, with “ten billion cubic meters the year of waste water” that could be useful for irrigation purposes.
“Acqua – added Pichetto – also means energy: today thehydroelectricin the future the hydrogen, with water we are thinking of making the accumulations for discontinuous productions. “” We must become a more modern country on the front of climate change, “said Pichetto, citing” the Pnacc With its 361 actions, a part concerning water “.” The big question – he concluded – is to build a balanced environmental culture use of the resource “.