People, Environment & Culture

Why there will be a water crisis in Sicily even if it has rained for months

In many municipalities, water is already rationed. And we are still in the low season, as far as tourism is concerned, with Sicily being taken by storm for the holidays and the long bridge between Easter and the First of May, and with Agrigento, the Italian Capital of Culture 2025 which is expected to triple its number of presences. But with what water, if images of luxury B&Bs with water bins at the entrance for visitors and instructions in three languages on how to ‘wash up’ were already doing the rounds on the web last year?

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Rolexes and luxury cars: the ‘Dolce Vita’ of former Conad executives under investigation for corruption

It might sound like the plot of a Totò film, but the story doesn’t even make one smile, because it was the thousands of families of dismissed employees, about whom La Stampa says nothing, who paid the price. But this is nothing new. The affair went on for years, amid complacent silences and intimidation of those who dared to write about it like me (and a few others)