Water crisis in Caltanissetta: five new wells in November as water supply becomes turbid, Ancipa River dries up sooner than expected.
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Five wells that will be put into operation in 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 11th according to civil protection sources, if it does not continue to rain, rather than on the 20th, the Ancipa dam, from which Caltanissetta’s water comes, will run dry. Currently, water is being supplied from the bottom, which is why it arrives turbid and yellowish in the city. It is officially potable and there is no contrary news in this regard, although the mothers of the historic center have requested new analyses during the meeting with the mayor of Caltanissetta, Walter Tesauro. No response has yet been given to those who have asked and to the city that wants to know. The water is unusable for drinking purposes and is visibly understandable.
Analyses are carried out by the competent bodies, namely the Asp of Caltanissetta and the Caltaqua analysis laboratory, 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 accumulated residues over the years take up space, reducing the capacity of the reservoirs. This capacity is further reduced because many, when the water is available, are not filled to their maximum level. At the moment, there are four wells used to supplement the lack of water coming from the Ancipa. Two are located between Mazzarino and Riesi, which supply 35 liters per second, one in Roccella with 8 liters per second, and the Cara well in the Pian del Lago area on the outskirts of the city, which supplies one liter per second but makes the water supply to the migrant reception center in the city autonomous. Everything else is just possible hypothetical sources, nothing real. Before the emergency, the city was supplied with 160 liters per second. Now, water arrives in Caltanissetta every 6 days, with a maximum flow of 95 liters per second.
The goal is not to increase the supply time to more than 6 days. By the end of the month, 12 silos will be set up in the city from which citizens can fill containers with a rationing per person. Caltanissetta has no sources of its own. There are a total of four dams in the province: Gibbesi for irrigation never used, Disueri for irrigation currently unused, Cimia unused, and finally Comunelli for irrigation, which supplies at a very low rate of 100,000 liters per second. The fact is that for some weeks now, water has been arriving in the city center for too short a time and at night, and this method of supply is the basis of the protest of the “Mothers of the historic center” who will take to the streets on Monday. A new cycle of protests will be accompanied by a soundtrack composed 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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