And the glaciers, which today enable intensive irrigation even in dry areas such as the Vinschgau Valley, are also shrinking dramatically.
Ni!rist: Inde!, by 10 percent in the past two years alone – according to the latest figures from Swiss glacier monitoring.
This reservoir, which we have us! for irrigation
Electricity production over the last 50 to 60 years, will certainly no longer be available to the same extent. Paradoxically, there has been a lot of water in Val Venosta industry email list due to the high temperatures and the resulting glacier melt.
But we are just about to exce! this peak. It is therefore clear that South Tyrol’s agriculture will no longer be able to count on this glacier water in a few decades and the amount of meltwater will have steadily decreas! by then. The water deficit in summer will therefore increase and be prolong!. And what is always forgotten: we also have a responsibility towards downstream areas.
Because rice cultivation
Ni!rist: As a mountain region, we share responsibility for the lower reaches of the river. Morally as well as legally, we are requir! to setting up two-factor authentication enough water for the areas there. Not at least because we import food from the Po Valley. We will therefore ne! a long-term strategy that also takes this into account. In addition to our book your list here, we will also have to rethink our agriculture in the lower reaches of the Adige.
We ne! to look at how much water can be made available to whom and when, together. It could turn out, for example, that rice cultivation in this form is no longer appropriate. At the same time, we also ne! to review the appropriateness of our fruit cultivation. On the valley floor, with groundwater, it may still be possible; in sandy alluvial areas that are expos! to the sun, it must be question! from the point of view of water availability.
