The territory of the Muzza Bassa Lodigiana consortium (MBL) covers an area of 740 km2. Within the 74,000 ha there are over 150 irrigation basins and thousands of irrigation subbasins with individual fields of landowners
The Muzza canal (about 40 km long) derives water from the Adda river at Cassano d’Adda and it flows back into the Adda river close to Castiglione d’Adda. Along the canal there are 38 intakes and many more hydraulic nodes; the entire Muzza network is composed by open earth canals. The Muzza is both the largest irrigation canal by capacity and the first artificial canal built in northern Italy.