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The northern Italian cities of Verona and Pisa, home to nearly 350,000 people, began rationing drinking water on Saturday amid a historic drought in the region.
Until August 31, drinking water cannot be used for watering vegetable plots, gardens and sports fields, washing cars, filling swimming pools and any other activity that is not strictly necessary for human needs, local authorities announced.
The use of drinking water for domestic purposes, cleaning and personal hygiene is still allowed in Pisa and Verona, which is the second largest city in northeastern Italy with more than 250,000 inhabitants.
Anyone found violating the restrictions can be fined up to €500.
However, the regional authority of Verona added that “any use for the purposes described above and prohibited, although not recommended, can only take place between 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.”
More than a hundred municipalities in northern Italy have adopted measures to save water, but Verona and Pisa are some of the biggest cities in the region to do so.
Like many countries in Europe, Italy has faced an unusually early heat wave, along with a severe lack of rainfall and melting snow from the Alps, which have been linked to climate change.
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