Italy’s Alpine lakes are at an all-time low in their water levels amid the worst drought in northern Italy in 70 years, the Po observatory said Thursday.
Lake Como is at 9 per cent of its normal full capacity while Lake Maggiore is at 19 per cent, Lake Garda at 22 per cent, and Lake d’Iseo at 8 per cent, it said.
“There is a huge deficit in the water levels,” said the observatory.
The overall quantity of water in the lakes at this time of the year is normally around 550 million cubic metres, but this year it is only 169 million, it said.
Human-caused climate change has exacerbated drought in Italy.
