While in many regions it rains or snows, the summit on the drought emergency scheduled today at Palazzo Chigi seems out of sync. In fact, what awaits us this summer is already being planned. In the Alps, 53% less snow fell than the previous year's average. Rainfall decreased by 61% in the Po basin and the Apennines. The emergency will begin in a few weeks, when the already-suffering civil and industrial uses are combined with the demand for agricultural water. Legambiente, an environmental organization, asks the government to define a national water strategy and proposes a series of interventions, ranging from the obligation to recover rainwater to the reuse of purified wastewater in agriculture to the controlled recharge of groundwater, ensuring that the ever-decreasing rainfall does not flow quickly downstream to the sea. Utilitalia, which represents the companies that provide water services to 80% of citizens, has also submitted a package of eight proposals. First and foremost, it advocates for more efficient water use in a country where per capita consumption is 215 liters per inhabitant per day, compared to the European average of 125 liters. Strategic infrastructures, such as large reservoirs for multiple uses, small and medium-sized reservoirs for irrigation, and water network interconnections, are also required. Even businesses, such as environmentalists, advocate for the reuse of purified water, increased groundwater volumes, and desalination: marine or brackish waters account for only 0.1% of supply sources in Italy, compared to 3% in Greece and 7% in Spain. Finally, companies announce 11 billion in investments, three of which will be used to repair leaks in the network, which currently loses 40% of the water it transports.