Press release 19/2023 from 12.06.2023 | Last changed: 14.06.2023
Spree faces increased water shortage after coal phase-out in Lausitz region
… new pipe systems in a way that is as environmentally sustainable as possible. Households, industry and agriculture should also save more water. One option, if … increased the water runoff in the Spree for more than a century. This is because groundwater was pumped out for brown coal mining and fed into the Spree. The … available without restrictions; the existing storage volumes can currently only be used to a limited extent by about 50 percent. First of all, therefore, existing …