Climate Italy Drought Tourism

Svet | 30.07.2024 | 15:20

Visitors admire the ancient Greek Concordia temple, known as the Temple of Juno, in the Valley of the Temples archeological park, in Agrigento, southern Sicily, Italy, Thursday, July 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Visitors admire the ancient Greek Concordia temple, in the Valley of the Temples archeological park, in Agrigento, southern Sicily, Italy, Thursday, July 18, 2024. Sicily is undergoing a punishing drought with water tightly rationed for almost a million residents, but Agrigento residents are among the most drought-resilient in Italy, and even with rationing, they still run their businesses, hotels, bed-and-breakfasts, and households without missing a shower, neglecting their garden or closing the swimming pool. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Fanaco Lake that provides water to a vast part of souther Sicily, including the city of Agrigento, shows the extremely low level of it's water after a winter with very scarse precipitations, in Castronovo di Sicilia, central Sicily, Italy, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Visitors refresh at a drinking fountain in the Valley of the Temples archeological park, in Agrigento, southern Sicily, Italy, Thursday, July 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Antonino Contino, left, and his wife Antonella Croce fill jerry cans with water for daily use at Agrigento's only public fountain, after they faced difficulties having water delivered by the tankers they were relying on, Southern Sicily, Italy, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Sicily is undergoing a punishing drought with water tightly rationed for almost a million residents, but Agrigento residents are among the most drought-resilient in Italy, and even with rationing, they still run their businesses, hotels, bed-and-breakfasts, and households without missing a shower, neglecting their garden or closing the swimming pool. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

A worker refills a water tanker at the Aica, Azienda Idrica Comuni Agrigentini, Agrigento municipalities water company, before going to supply a holiday resort in the nearby town of Porto Empedocle, in southern Sicily, Italy, Thursday, July 18, 2024. Sicily is undergoing a punishing drought with water tightly rationed for almost a million residents, but Agrigento residents are among the most drought-resilient in Italy, and even with rationing, they still run their businesses, hotels, bed-and-breakfasts, and households without missing a shower, neglecting their garden or closing the swimming pool. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Tourists enjoy the swimming pool of the "L'Ancora" holiday resort in the sea town of Porto Empedocle, in southern Sicily, Italy, Thursday, July 18, 2024. Sicily is undergoing a punishing drought with water tightly rationed for almost a million residents, but Agrigento residents are among the most drought-resilient in Italy, and even with rationing, they still run their businesses, hotels, bed-and-breakfasts, and households without missing a shower, neglecting their garden or closing the swimming pool. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Tourists sit on the beach of the sea town of Porto Empedocle, in southern Sicily, Italy, Thursday, July 18, 2024. Sicily is undergoing a punishing drought with water tightly rationed for almost a million residents, but Agrigento residents are among the most drought-resilient in Italy, and even with rationing, they still run their businesses, hotels, bed-and-breakfasts, and households without missing a shower, neglecting their garden or closing the swimming pool. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)