On a sweltering Sicilian summer’s afternoon, Giuseppe Rizzo was collecting water from a spring-fed fountain to supply households whose taps had run dry.
In this hardscrabble corner of southwestern Sicily, water from the leaky municipal network only arrives in homes once in a while — sometimes for only a few hours in 12 or 13 days, forcing residents to buy large tanks to hoard water on their rooftops or even in spare rooms.
If those tanks are empty and municipal water isn’t due soon, residents call private operators like Rizzo, 37, whose family has four tank trucks. He delivers truckloads of water for €40 to €120, depending on the volume and distance from the spring.
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