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Seawater threatens farms relying on Italy’s Po as flow falls in heatwave
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- At the last point before the Po river branches into several channels feeding into the Adriatic Sea, the flow has dropped from some 1,000 cubic metres per second to below 300.
- While engineers have been tackling the so-called salt wedge for years, barriers built in the 1980s to limit the intrusion of seawater are proving insufficient.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize. The flow of Italy’s Po River has dropped dramatically in less than two weeks as a result of the heatwave gripping Europe, allowing salty seawater to advance as far as 18 km (11 miles) inland and raising fears for the delta’s agriculture and protected wetlands.
At the last point before the Po river branches into several channels feeding into the Adriatic Sea, the flow has dropped from some 1,000 cubic metres per second to below 300.
While engineers have been tackling the so-called salt wedge for years, barriers built in the 1980s to limit the intrusion of seawater are proving insufficient.
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