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- Switzerland raised Lake Lugano’s outflow to Italy from three to eight cubic metres per second for ten days.
- The outflow will lower Lake Lugano by ten centimetres while raising water in Lake Maggiore to aid rice farms near Novara, Lomellina and Milan.
- An emergency consultative meeting was held Monday at the Italian Ministry of the Environment’s request.
- Ticino cannot release more water because private concessions limit its legal authority.
