21 Oct 2024 | News
Pileri: “Drainage is inadequate — in large urban centres the damage multiplies. Watercourses are channelled or buried underground; we need to give them space back. Regional governments and the national government are doing little — applying small plasters to large wounds.”
“Regional councils and central government should halt all urban development activity and carry out a serious assessment of every city’s capacity to withstand rainfall and wind in this changed climate. But nobody is doing this, despite academics like us saying so for years. Zero.”
Source: quotidiano.net
By: Alessandro D’Amato
Date: 21 October 2024
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Credits: quotidiano.net
