Alarm grows over Italy’s drought-hit Po River, the situation is so acute that leaders of Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna said they would ask for a state of emergency to be declared in their regions. See more: https://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2022/06/17/climate-crisis-italys-drought-emergency-escalates_b6b94a5b-4668-4ba5-9a66-4b0b2a8123a6.html Cracked earth photo created by jigsawstocker – www.freepik.com