Where man could not, nature took care of it with rain and snow.

06 June 2023

Here nature has taken care of it again. Only a month ago, the scenario was catastrophic, the shallow lake not rising even after the thawing of the snows and the first timid rains, the misguided national and foreign press portraying the situation in a worrying and almost uncontrolled manner, the concern for a season just around the corner. In short, a stressful situation. Stress is also what the Garda basin has been undergoing for over 18 years with the constant increase in tourism for the same infrastructure, a fragile balance that has been becoming fully realised in the last few years. The Trentino withholding the first useful water for its own basins, the dry Sarca, the generous Garda ceding its water to the great Italian rivers, show us how acting locally has global significance, and then the rain!!! days and days of rain, the features of an unusually cold and fortunately rainy 'Maggembre'. Nature took care of it, so much water, too much!!! The thought of the preceding months of not having been able, in both private and public logics, to realise over the years infrastructures for the reduction of water needs and for the realisation of rainwater harvesting systems, litres and litres of the precious blue gold will probably be wasted. Little is bad, but too much is not good either. In fact, the basins of the Po Valley fill up and are unable to drain the water that falls copiously from Lake Garda and other basins. To create a system, to team up between private bodies, companies and citizens, even from different municipalities and territories, but united by a sad element, waste. Finding practical and shared solutions together, this is what we can do to lend a hand to Mother Nature, but ultimately to make our ecological footprint less heavy.