The abundant and frequent rainfall over the past few weeks seems to have put the water emergency on the back burner, resulting in a different yet still worrying situation compared to a year ago, when crops were already suffering from a significant reduction in water availability.
"The fears of growers of having to face a terrible summer drought do not cease, despite the recent rain," explains Vincenzo Orso, pilot of HydroHunter Italy. "In many cases, the rainfall has replenished the water table. This could, however, be a good motivation to carry out water research where water is scarce. There are companies, for example, that already possess artesian wells, but that are not drawing satisfactory resources from them. In these cases, it would only be necessary to drill deeper, now that water is only minimally present in the aquifers. In order not to make such operations expensive or unnecessary for entrepreneurs, it is better to scan the subsoil by fully evaluating the costs and benefits."
Thanks to innovative airborne and ground-based systems operated by electromagnetic waves, Hydro Hunter Italia is able to tell customers whether or not it is worth drilling. "When we go into a field for water scans, we carry almost 100 kg of instrumentation with us. The fundamental ones include a drone equipped with an enhanced magnetometer to detect electrometric anomalies, a galvanic instrument that detects whether the aquifer being examined is flowing or stagnant water, and an instrument for the magnetic resonance of the ground, which is necessary to indicate a precise point (with a radius of 2-3 m) where to position the drill and the depth of the layer suitable for water circulation. The last instrument is important to indicate soil stratification."
Over the past few hours, Hydro Hunter Italia has been in Basilicata for some new scans.
For more information:
Hydro Hunter Italy
Grosseto - Italy
+39 3510012837
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