“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.

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 ...