The towns of Ribera and Bivona take to the streets in Palermo to protest against the drought: a delegation of about fifty people representing the two towns held a sit-in this morning (May 31) outside the headquarters of the Water and Waste Department of the Region on Viale Campania to ask for help and better management of water resources.
“We are here,” emphasizes Leonardo Borsellino, one of the members of the Together for Water committee born this year in Ribera to make the voice of the farmers in the area heard. “We ask for water to be allocated for irrigation of our fields and for agreements to be signed for the maintenance of aqueducts and for the production of electricity to be stopped to give oxygen to the field irrigations.” At the moment, the water reserves of the territory are being used to produce electricity and “all the water from the Verdura river has ended up in the sea – Borsellino attacks again – it is unacceptable. Water is poorly managed and by a few, who take it away from agriculture and allocate it for the production of electricity.”
With them also the committee for Bivona, the association Irrigua acque per Bivona, represented by Gabriele Terzino: “We can no longer live on promises,” he says, “we cannot be hostages of bureaucrats who block the economy of the territory, already hungry and subject to depopulation. What do they want – he continues – for the last remaining ones to go away? We stay and fight.”
Siccità in Sicilia, cittadini di Bivona e Ribera in piazza a Palermo: «Acqua per i nostri campi»
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