Water crisis: five new wells for Caltanissetta in November. Meanwhile, city water arrives turbid: Ancipa river drying up earlier than expected.
Five wells that will be put into operation for the first days of November to increase water supply in Caltanissetta. Contracts have already been signed and work will begin next week. In less than a month, probably on November 11, according to civil protection sources, if it doesn’t continue to rain rather than on November 20, the Ancipa dam, the basin from which the water comes to Caltanissetta, will remain dry. Currently, water is being supplied from the bottom, which is why it arrives turbid and yellowish in the city. Officially, it is drinkable and there is no news to the contrary, although the mothers of the historic center have asked during a meeting with the mayor of Caltanissetta, Walter Tesauro, to carry out new analyses. No response has been given to those who have requested it and to the city that wants to know. The water is unusable for drinking purposes and is visibly understandable.
The analyses are carried out by the competent bodies, namely the Asp of Caltanissetta and the analysis laboratory of Caltaqua, the private company that manages water supply in the city. Caltaqua is obliged to publish the analyses every three months. No dam has ever been dredged, so the residue accumulated over the years takes up space, reducing the capacity of the reservoirs. The capacity is further reduced because many reservoirs, not even tested, are not filled to the maximum level when water is present. Currently, there are four wells used to make up for the lack of water coming from Ancipa. Two are between Mazzarino and Riesi, which supply 35 liters per second, one in Roccella supplying 8 liters per second, and the Cara in the Pian del Lago area on the outskirts of the city, which supplies one liter per second, a well that nevertheless makes the supply to the migrant center in the city autonomous. The rest are just hypotheses of possible other sources but nothing real. Before the emergency arrived, the city was supplied with 160 liters per second. Now water in Caltanissetta arrives every 6 days for a maximum of 95 liters per second.
The goal is not to increase the water supply time to more than 6 days. By the end of the month, 12 silos will be placed in the city from which citizens, with a rationing per person, can fill containers. Caltanissetta does not have its own sources of supply. There are a total of four dams in the province: Gibbesi for irrigation use never used, Disueri for irrigation use currently not used, Cimia not used, and finally Comunelli for irrigation use which supplies at a very low rate of 100,000 liters per second. The fact is that for the past few weeks, water in the city center arrives for too short a time and at night, and this mode of supply is the basis of the protest of the “Mothers of the historic center,” who will march again on Monday. A new cycle of protests will be accompanied by a soundtrack composed specifically for the occasion by Arcangelo Butera, a ballad dedicated to the water emergency.
Crisi idrica, a novembre cinque nuovi pozzi per Caltanissetta. E intanto in città l’acqua arriva torbida: l’Ancipa è a secco prima del previsto
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