ITALIAN INVESTMENT

A draft plan to improve water quality and promote efficient water use in the northwestern Italian region of Piedmont earmarks €3.3 billion to be spent between now and 2016.

Quality improvement projects should be fast-tracked for completion by 2008. Annual water consumption in Piedmont amounts to nearly six billion cubic metres, five billion of which are used in agriculture. A two-year draft plan to remediate water pollution, upgrade aqueducts and improve the hydrogeological assets of the Tuscan territory was approved by the regional authorities.

Around €30 million will be ...

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