L'utilizzo della risorsa idrica tra necessità di efficienza e politiche pubbliche

Water is the most abundant natural resource of the planet Earth and its quantity is constant over time. It is a resource of primary importance within the economic system.Its use is essential in all the productive processes determining creation of value. The availability of water for irrigation continues to be relevant for the agricultural sector and an essential factor of competitiveness. The undervaluation of the property has not had a positive effect on the adequacy of the resource in terms of availability and cannot get discouraged use that exceeds the rate of regeneration. The described trends were subjected to repeated regulatory intervention aimed at finding a balance that is deviating from the need to safeguard both the widespread availability of the resource. In particular, the EC Directive 2000/60 intervenes decisively in economic sanctioning the application, although not binding, the principle of cost recovery for water services in imagining the application of full cost, the legislator introduced the problem of managing a resource intended for multiple uses. The recent confirmation of the validity of the plant of the Directive imposes the need to arrive also in Italy at the definitive development of management methods actually able to recognize all water services the right price according to the intended use taking into account their real economic cost.