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Boats lie on the dried shipyard on the Po River in Torricella, near Cremona, Italy, Wednesday, April 19, 2023. Italy's largest river is already as low as it was last summer, sparking fears of precariously dry months ahead. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

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Lack of snow condemns Italy's Po to a desperately dry summer
By PAOLO SANTALUCIA - Associated Press
Sun,04/23/23-9:01PM , 72 Reads
TRENTO, Italy (AP) — Italy’s largest river is already as low as it was last summer, with the winter snow fields that normally save it from drying up over the warmer months having receded by 75%, according to the Bolzano climate and environment agency.

It's already causing some reliant on the Po to course correct.
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Rice farmer Giovanni Daghetta handles a dewatering pump from a tractor to get water from a channel to a completely dried rice field, in Mortara, Lomellina area, Italy, Monday, June 27, 2022. The worst drought Italy has faced in 70 years is thirsting paddy fields in the river Po valley and jeopardizing the harvest of the premium rice used for risotto. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

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Rice fields dry up as Italy's drought lingers on
By PAOLO SANTALUCIA - Associated Press
Wed,06/29/22-1:57AM , 59 Reads
MORTARA, Italy (AP) — The worst drought Italy has faced in 70 years is thirsting paddy fields in the river Po valley and jeopardizing the harvest of the premium rice used for risotto.
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People fish near a hydroelectric power plant at Isola Serafini, on the Po river in San Nazzaro, Italy, Wednesday, June 15, 2022. The drying up of the river is jeopardizing drinking water in Italy's densely populated and highly industrialized districts and threatening irrigation in the most intensively farmed part of the country. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

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As Po dries up, Italy's food and energy supplies are at risk
By PAOLO SANTALUCIA - Associated Press
Fri,06/17/22-2:03AM , 102 Reads
BORETTO, Italy (AP) — Water is so low in large stretches of Italy's largest river that local residents are walking through the middle of the expanse of sand and shipwrecks are resurfacing.
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CORRECTS SPELLING OF NAME Vera Lytovchenko holds her violin as she poses for a photo in a basement of an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday March 6, 2022. Lytovchenko is Ukraine's cellar violinist, who has become an internet icon of resilience as images of her playing in the basement bomb shelter have inspired an international audience via social media. (Vera Lytovchenko via AP)

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Sheltering from bombs, Ukraine's 'cellar violinist' plays on
By PAOLO SANTALUCIA - Associated Press
Wed,03/09/22-1:21PM , 149 Reads
ROME, Italy (AP) — A gentle tune from a violin played by a musician who has been dubbed Ukraine’s “cellar violinist” is a lullaby for a child sheltered in the dark basement of an apartment building in the besieged Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
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