"Climate changes, accompanied by increasingly extreme events, pose new challenges to risk prevention and mitigation techniques, imposing a new vision of the problem on institutions, researchers and technical professionals", given that, according to some estimates, "6.8 million of inhabitants live in areas with medium flood risk and 2.4 million in highly dangerous flood zones, a total of 15% of the population": the idea of the National Councils of Engineers and Geologists to promote the National Day for the Prevention and Mitigation of Hydrogeological Risk starts from this premise, tomorrow, Thursday 18 April, starting at 10am, at the Roman Aquarium (in Piazza Manfredo Fanti, 47), in Rome. To systematically address the problem in the Peninsula, says a note from the professionals, "a minimum requirement of 26.58 billion is estimated" to implement the right initiatives to prevent the worsening of the phenomena resulting from the floods. For the president of the Italian engineers Angelo Domenico Perrini, there is a need for "a new design of hydraulic works capable of responding adequately to changes in the types of events, such as water bombs. Furthermore, it is necessary to intervene extremely effectively on the times for carrying out the works which, according to all indicators, in our country they take years."
In the opinion of the number one geologist Arcangelo Francesco Violo, it is necessary to "also plan a series of non-structural interventions, through which to significantly contribute to the prevention of the consequences of increasingly frequent extreme events and carry out correct risk management and improve the adaptive capacity of socio-economic systems and natural".
The National Day for the Prevention and Mitigation of Hydrogeological Risk will be attended by, among others, the Ministers of Infrastructure, Civil Protection and the Environment and Energy Security Matteo Salvini, Nello Musumeci and Gilberto Pichetto.