“It is evident that there is an entire system with an ecology that will have permanent problems,’’ said Giancarlo Mantovani, director of Po River Basin Authority. The ecosystem includes the ...

RANEY: The Po River basin provides water to northern Italy's agricultural heartland. The drought that extends across much of Italy threatens to wipe out 30% of national agricultural output this year.

In Italy, the problem is most pronounced for farms in the Po River basin, which accounts for about 30 percent of the national agricultural output by market value, according to Coldiretti ...

A historic drought in Italy could endanger 30% of the country’s agricultural production ... of rainfall will affect the basin of the Po, Italy’s longest river which flows across the country ...