Press release 15/2018 from 24.05.2018 | Last changed: 06.06.2018
Drinking water in Germany again rated "very good"
… the absolute exception. Even nitrate, a problematic chemical which is present in groundwater in excessive concentrations, especially in regions where intensive … new data on nitrate, which can leach from chemical fertilisers and slurry into groundwater, reaffirm the decline which had already been registered: cases of excessive … use in agriculture are actually causing nitrate concentrations to increase in groundwater. Drinking water itself is uncontaminated virtually everywhere: less than …