Italy drought: Rome forced to cut water pressure at night

It has hardly rained in Rome for months and, with Romans returning from their summer holidays, the city's water company has decided to act.
From next week water pressure will be cut during the night on peak days in September. Higher buildings could lose their supplies altogether.
Water company Acea says it has managed to plug 1,300 water leaks since May.
But Rome's "extraordinary drought" means it has less and less water available for the capital's citizens.
Rainfall in Rome is down 70% on the previous three years, the company says in a statement (in Italian).
Romans had already been threatened with water rationing earlier in the summer because of a row over water being extracted from Lake Bracciano, north of Rome, which provides the city with 8% of its water needs. At one point the Vatican said it was turning off its 100 fountains.
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But the water company was eventually allowed to continue using the lake when it promised to cut its withdrawals from 1,100 to 400 litres per second.
And it was able to hold off taking further action in August, when water consumption goes down dramatically because Romans head to the beaches for their holidays. However, with the summer break coming to an end the effects of the drought are even worse than before.