The Pa River, which stretches nearly 400 miles from the Piedmont Alps in the west to the Adriatic in the east and irrigates the northern valley where 40 percent of Italy’s food is produced, is 10 feet below normal in some areas. . The Italian Confederation of Farmers has warned that there could be a reduction in fruit and vegetable production of up to 40% due to drought, the result of more than three months without rain and unusually high temperatures of up to 36 degrees Celsius. “I think so
