Water shortage in Germany - New ideas for long-term security | DW Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2023
- People and countries worldwide are facing more droughts, more heat and growing water shortages. Even in Germany a sufficient supply of water cannot be taken for granted everywhere. The hope now is to secure that supply with new - and old - ideas.
The situation in Germany is not comparable to that in many hotter countries, but even here the search for clean water is becoming a growing challenge. Some regions have had an acutely dry last few years, and groundwater levels have plummeted. The causes are not just more drought periods but also soil sealing - and higher pollutant levels in the water have also become a problem.
The search for solutions has many facets. Günther Westenhoff has spent years using his divining rod to track down water sources for drilling companies. Increasing aridity means they have to bore deeper and deeper. While he cannot explain how his divining rod works, he shows us that it produces results.
Water rights - who is permitted to extract how much water - are becoming a source of growing contention. In the small southern German town of Bergtheim the mayor has been trying to mediate between consumers and farmers, who require more water for their crops. One solution would be a long-distance pipeline - but the costs would have to be passed on to those consuming the water.
It’s been a wakeup call for customers, says civil engineer Andreas Baur, who is based nearby. He provides advice on finding water supplies - and has become a very busy man. Many local authorities are eager to prepare for further dry periods by drilling new wells. Bauer says water consumption has risen - in industry, farming and for private demand, such as for filling swimming pools. The first step in locating water is to compile hydrogeological maps and calculate the groundwater flow. Then the geologists recommend specific spots to conduct drilling.
In northern Germany it’s not just climate change causing problems with water. In large parts of Lower Saxony and North Rhine Westphalia, upper groundwater areas have been rendered unusable by the farming sector’s sprays, nitrates from liquid manure and fermentation residues. Egon Harms from the OOWV water provider says they now need a 10-year head-start with drilling before the same things happens to deeper layers. Things are looking bleak, and although Germany is now finally complying with nitrate limits after years of EU pressure, Egon Harms insists that far too little action is being taken to protect drinking water.
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We can put back the hedges, ponds and ditches that were torn out to increase the size of fields. Industrial agriculture is a disaster. Organic farming and crop rotation protect yields even in dry years, because the regenerated soil retains water.
in soviet union in estonia, i remember farming was done like that.. if u used the field one year, ui didnt use the same field for next 2 years.. and used somewhere else...
@@Microphunktv-jb3kjbut the population has increased, we can't skip 2yrs of farming otherwise we will starve
@@muemakiio3466 Depends where you live, im from Estonia, population is literally the same it has been since 12th century :D
There are some infrastructures that help to retain rain water and recharge water tables.
As well the swamps can help to retain and infiltrate water in the ground.
Some swamps could be restored in strategic points to ensure water infiltration.
The nitrate concentration can be treated with biological processes.
A lot can be done.
@@alecholland1685 this and shortage of chemicals used to purify water
Very little said about better use of water by the population!
Taking two showers per day is a right, trying to reduce it to one would cause riots like in France, the issue as stated is climate change, not consumption, go figure
Its never talked about but we are overpopulated we live on just 1% of the worlds fresh water supply the other 99% is salt water so 8 billion people and counting plus all the animals on the planet plus the waste plus all the water we use to grow amd make things we are headed for a huge disaster this is just the start i hope im not here when it happens because without water we are doomed we will never run out but there wont be enough for everybody that im sure of!!
Not enough water to produce beer that's an big problem
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I wonder if the stonemason could capture all the water he uses in a drain in his floor instead?
0:00: ⚠ Germany is facing water shortages due to climate change and pollution, impacting various sectors including beer production and agriculture.
4:39: 🌍 Climate change is leading to shifts in groundwater recharge patterns in Northern Germany, with some areas experiencing depletion while others see increased levels.
8:42: 🌊 Water scarcity and groundwater quality issues in Germany.
12:57: 🚰 The drilling of new wells for drinking water in Germany is becoming more challenging due to the declining quality and quantity of water.
17:57: 💧 Water scarcity is becoming a major concern in various areas, leading to conflicts over distribution and the need for innovative solutions.
22:18: 💧 Climate change is causing increased demand for water in Germany, leading to innovative solutions such as filtering and collecting rainwater for drinking purposes.
26:10: 🌍 Water scarcity and nitrate contamination pose challenges for groundwater supply in Germany, leading to conflicts over water distribution and impacting industries such as brewing.
Recap by Tammy AI
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Absolute nonsense .
The shortage of water is simple
Not enough water for 80 m + people.
Germany needs to have way way less children .
As does the rest of the planet
To the point, without the “drama.” Thank you! Rs
BS
The arkward moment when your 35 years' experience as a prestigious hydrogeologist and eminent scientist is brought into question by an old guy with a couple of cheap plastic rods.
There is an old British man who used the same method in Kenya, to identify best aquifer spots.
It's ancient knowledge, in latinamerica we use the two sticks as well
@@BlackRaceEvolutionlmfao that pseudoscience doesn't work and the guy with the sticks knows it doesn't. He's a con artist.
We in Punjab Pakistan use similar method since ages
Sometimes just digging in a random spot works.
The root of the problem here is not climate change. Water is a renewable resource. If a system keeps extracting but doesnt hold space for water cycle to recharge , water scarcity is just a natural consequence. If the ground water table doesnt get recharged , start building surface water lanscape features to hold water that comes as precipitation. Slow the water that down , let it seep in . Increase the land surface where water can seep down , improve soil organic matter . For every 1 percentage increase in soil organic matter it holds 20000 more liters per hector.
At last someone who can see past the "Climate Change" excuse.
Of course the problems outlined in the documentary can be caused by *both* climate change *and* poor water management practices.
@@WilsonCC Oh Y E A H. . . of course...🙄
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Heating of the atmosphere results, among many other things, in increasing the atmosphere's capacity for holding water. As the atmospheric patterns change due to global climate change, the redistribution of atmospheric water changes. This means that many land areas which have had adequate rain patterns before, now face long periods of drought; conversely, those areas which historically have had low annual rainfall now are faced with an overabundance of rain, resulting in floods and severe erosion. Because the Earth is over 70% covered by water, most of this redistribution of water falls over the oceans, contributing to the dilution of ocean water salinity. Adding to this is fresh water from melting glaciers and the poles. This change in salinity contributes significantly to the disruption of ocean currents, and thus the weather patterns all over the world. Climate change itself is natural; however, the speed at which it is changing now is not natural, and as the vast majority of scientific study shows, this rapid increase in climate change is clearly due to human activity, far exceeding our current political willingness - and possibly our ability - to adapt in time to avert global catastrophe.
I find it interesting how water shortage, small water pipes and climate change are framed as the problem, rather than looking at human production and consumption and GHG output rates and the economic ideals that drive growth.
So you suggest population reduction?
@@laurensa.1803 I do.
@@laurensa.1803 population reduction via attrition (people having less babies) seems more sensible than having entire populations dying from starvation and thirst.
Meanwhile it seems that humans aren’t anymore intelligent than common brewers yeast.
@@laurensa.1803 People who openly promote that type of politics should start by reducing themselves.
This is a reason for UK leaving the EU... freedom of movement of cheap labour also places extra demand on a whole range of resources... including water.
Great video! :) Topic for the next documentary could be - How people can use water more effectively and decrease useless consumption!
Farmers in Poland are starting to change farming techniques. Goal? Improving water retention of fields. This is just the beginning. All industries will have to change how they use the water.
No matter how much you try to avoid food and water shortages, there will always be more scarcity and famine. Cutting back will not help avoid a very obvious inevitability, which is quickly becoming a realisation
@@jaflaf3201 This isn't cutting back, it's all about changing habits and techniques. One of these is not to overfertilize.
@darkestkhan water retention is not cutting back on water.
Oh okay. Then I fail to see why there is a change of technique other than for resourceful reasons.
This documentary is specifically about water scarcity.
@@jaflaf3201 Yeah, the doc is about water scarcity, and this commentor is saying that the farmers are now working more thoughtful of water as a resource than before when it was more wasteful, as they didnt see water as a resource that could end. It's a huuuuge change in philosophy and actual work behavior. It's pretty cool actually.
@@pocketz2202 what's your point... ? I think I missed it.
Built reservoir under ground, built filter stations from rocks and sand and gather rain water from roofs. Maybe it won’t help for farmers but for people in cities it’s, and the rest of the water we can direct for farming industry.
Permaculture, berms, swales - ancient techniques that work!
who would have thought that those dang primitives knew what they were doing all those years ago?
It turns out the ancients had some good ideas, but don't forget that there are plenty of examples where they depleted their soils and water supplies.
Every country 10 years ago: We have enough water let's just waste it!
Every country now: well Canada has to share now :)
Go beavers!
If water prices ever reach a point where cross continental water tanker ships are financially viable then we are already doomed.
We've been doomed for quite some time now ...
@@JollyOldCanuck De-salination will always be cheaper than tanker ships, but even that is still impractically expensive.
@@AwesomeFish12 And it destroys on the sea's ecosystem.
human greed has no limits
Amen!
Actually it does...
When the resources disappear, so will humans.
Checks and balances.
Either does ignorant responses
@@rider65 Sayeth the pot to the kettle.
@@Kamehaikuà8
There is enough for everyones need, but not for everyones greed.
Especially Germany's greed.
Most drinking water in developed countries gets shat into
Why have they allowed the stone masonry factory to dig that deep and use up that huge amount of water daily ? They should leave that water for future generations and help the farmers get access to it now.
I was surprised to see this report. Here in Wisconsin, an area with ample water, we have water retention areas (water sheds) and marsh lands designed to capture rain and snow run off. A 35 meter well (144 feet) seems shallow. We live in the country and our well, hitting the great lakes aquifer, is at 285'. On the nearby farm where I grew up the well is at 450'. Plenty of water and no contaminants at those levels. Why aren't those practices common in Germany?
Besides desal plants we need areas to divert water into wetland areas to give it a chance to shift down to ground water vs ending up in ocean
Ground water extraction will also run out, though.
Many aquifers around the world are dropping in levels, they take thousands or even tens of thousands of years to fill up and centuries or even decades to empty once they become the default water source.
Shouldnt each ground water well that is drilled newly at this point have a concurrent recharge mechanism also build into the site so that recharge of the resources is also accounted for ?
Not having enough water is probably one of the scariest problems we can have. We literally cant live without it.
It was a remarkable documentary shared about the lack of a sufficient amount of healthy quality of drinking water 🚰 in Germany 🇩🇪 in the heart 🫀 of European content 😮.... documentary is labeled to a massive effectiveness of climate change ....thank you( DW) documentary channel for shring this wonderful journalism work 👏🏻
The problem is all that corn grown for bio gas.
Nitrate is pretty easily removed using aeration and enzymes using pond's.
An old british man in kenya used the same methods of rods to identify best aquifer spots for drilling. It worked perfectly
They could have drilled anywhere on that terrain and found the same amount of water. The rods are moved by the person holding the rod, not by the water.
I can do it too. After studying groundwater table maps and making my homework before going to the site...
Divining rods(Latin:virgula divina or baculus divinatorius) are also called dowsing rods vining rods, or witching rods. They are used to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones,oil or even ex_plosiv3s. The military has developed electronic devices (they consist of a software like labview, a hardware from national instruments and the divining rods), which when the rods react to certain ex_plosiv3, then it is included in the ex_plosiv3 data bank. But those devices will not function when the área, where the divining rods are located, is surrounded by high voltaje cables(like transmission cables or electric fences for cattle). Using divining rods is regarded as a pseudoscience
do dowsing rods work?
We should all start recycling bath/shower water as soon as possible, as it's much simpler than recycling drinking water. You can buy filters, filter-housings, a few 5 gal buckets, and a cheap diaphragm water pump (like one from Vevor) for relatively cheap. You could recycle the water indefinitely in such a closed loop system, and only need to add a little to account for evaporation. This would make a huge difference.
You do that.
@@redditsucksyo Why are you wanting to be such a mediocre person? Why dont you want to help our world to sustain itself? Why are you only allowing your ego to steer your life?
I pee in a jug to make orange juice
@@cam5955 Hmm...that's a great recipe. I'm going to write that one down...
@@joryferrell7244 let migrants in, they can fix problems in white countries
"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
If industrial farming is consuming so much (of other peoples' water) and it also pollutes (other peoples') groundwater, how about getting rid of it all together?
You give up your food then I'll follow your example.
With rainwater harvesting, and more carbon in the soil, plus cover crops mulched or grazed down before planting, there is ample water available. HugelKulture is a great way ro improve water retention in the soil.
In my country we flush our toilets with drinking water. Every flush consumes 4 litres
Real eye opener
End of prosperity arrived earlier than predicted date. I think the industrilazed communities will probably be aware of "money or cars can't be eaten or drunk like water"
It boggles my mind to see water scarcity in areas with electricity that can run large dehumidifiers and carbon filters. The technology has been around for close to a century now. This is why education is important.
Not the beer production We need to fix the water problem right now!
Stop directing rain water into sewers and rivers, it should all be captured or directed to soakaway drains to recharge ground water.
Too much volume.... It wouldn't work.
@@AwesomeFish12 There is too much volume because rainwater is being channelled. There are plenty of examples of bulk rainwater storage with slow soakaway. Even under-road systems with a permeable road surface, it's not as expensive as storm drains and fixes the groundwater issue.
I always thought Africa is the only one without water 🇰🇪🇰🇪
@@KIASHTVmore to do with overuse water isn't a endless pot
Uk , Australia both have issue with supply of drinkable water
🤣🤣😂😂🤣 Africa, is surrounded by water. Salt water boiled and distilled is drinkable, it's even in the air, in Africa, I've been there, it's very humid.😎👍 Last I heard there's. Oxygen also in the air..without it, water wouldn't exist. 😃😃😃
Weve got plenty of water bodies in some African countries but getting it to taps seems like rocker science
Most continents have arid regions.
Google Earth would show you that by the coloration.
Sad as it is I survey areas find wells and springs buy em then charge arm n leg to company
same is happening in Poland as well,
trees keeps humidity...
IT IS ONE OF THE BEST DOCUMENTARY ABOUT PURE DRINKING WATER,,,
clean water and air are the essence of life. It's scary when there is scarcity of either.
For years, Israel has been using purified sewage water for agriculture, saving precious on drinking water.
It's the scale of the predicament that is the problem
In the USA farmers are cutback first on water allotments before customers and businesses. This does not solve the big picture
Do what India is doing with the Paani Foundation and others. Permaculture swales for rainwater capture will allow more water to seep into ground. Less monoculture, more trees, swales, and ponds. If it is successful in desertified areas of India, you can certainly do it in Germany, where you get more rain. You have to do things differently
exactly. It rains a lot in Germany, it should be not hard to fix this. It's crazy we can't fix these things anymore. Sadly I believe it's mostly politics and as long as we dont remove this corrupt/broken system it's gonna get only worse. Global warming has very little to do with this.
We should reuse water and have closed water systems.
Schildbuerger! I went to demonstrations against Flussbegradigungen in the 70s... predicting exactly this out come.
Come to Romania if you need more water :D, the Danube is 2km width at some points!
Maybe a good idea to use old browncoal mines as water reservoirs..
Really large holes. Make lakes.❤️😎
Dowsing is fake. You could have skipped that part...
great plants love nitrate
well done
Beavers, rewild rivers, ponds and ditches. Anything to slow the water that for hundreds of years we have tried to get out the landscape as quickly as possible
If we must farm then why can't it be native stuff to reduce fertilizer pesticides and all the other harmful stuff they use to grow em.
Why well if it's native it can potentially help reduce water use and if we just let the leaf and other dead plant matter just fall and stay on soil it can increase the health of the soil and increase the nutrients in it as well.
Also the trees in cities most arnt native and they have way to little soil increase it mybe give a long line 5 or 8 feet wide going the whole length of the block to help increase the health of trees and increase the amount of rain that can be absorbed.
Lmao 16:35 I did not expect this. German Feng Shui master at work.
Yeah water shortages globally Lol
But beer is readily available 24/7
This is so unsustainable! We need to catch rainwater instead of depleting water tables. Please see Brad Lancaster's books about 'Water Harvesting for Dry Lands'
What happened to the guy that generated drinking water from air /condensation??
When the salt water disappears all the fresh waterr will go with it
The only reason we have water is salt keeps the water on the ground
All the fresh water will evaporate if they keep doing desalination
It’s gonna get worse
That is a fact.
Within 2 decades we will witness the big exodus of humans ever.
Good grief I never ever would think there would be a water shortage in GERMANY ! 😲
All the best to you Germans who are affected. Kind regards to you all from Mad England.
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Come to Ireland...it won't stop raining...we should export it
Think big Laetitia, we can open up our own waterworld parks and charge the lads there an arm and a leg to come for a wet holiday.
@@anthonydoyle7370 lol..😂😂😂😂
nah, stockpile it, then hold it for ransom. that way, you can buy MORE water and then sell it an exorbitant price!
@@patrickaycock3655 That's OK. But remember what happened to Milo Minderbinder and the Egyptian cotton.
Darn. Can’t use enough of this limited resource to make more beer. Really? That’s the priority?!?
If the company which use water to work with stones, why it is not catching and reusing this water more times?
Who cares about their beer? Limit production of alcohol and soda, we need WATER PURE
with regardes to the brewery thay have a roof and access to rain water.
Wine and Beer industries will be less priorities as Food supplies become more important for each countries survival of Food and Water
Our New Zealand farmers along with others in America are turning to Permaculture stock feeding And there are Incredible results with paddocks saving more more as it rains and cows act as portable compost deposits and these are moved often from one paddock to another To return 5:33 more nutrients back into fields
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"Beer...really Germany, how about all the animal life that's dying everyday; because the lack of water...beer."🤦🏾♂
Each problem has a solution. Here is a simple one. Take the surface of a city roofs (m²) × mm/m² rainfall. That's a lot of m³. Collect this water in a separate system send it to the nearest (1km) of a common well in a created pound to harvest this water. This will be filtered by the soil and the ground waterlevel will rise. All you need now is that the city hall employees move their butt and make it happen. Otherwise the city will have very thirsty angry citizens. The ball is now in your courtyard. Do something about it. Succes!!👋👋
Fact is, we know very very less about the ground water ecosystem and it's functioning. Our only concern should be, how not to destroy those.
Germans in Germany are concerned about helping to maintain affordable energy sources to help keep their homes warm enough in winter too.
"Ok i heard some ware on the net about a rare bacteria that eats nitrate has anyone else heard of this because my nitrate never gose up in my tank after being cycled its not gone up i have another tank that it did go up in so i swaped a spunge over into that tank 3 week ago and now i have next to no nitrate could i have this bacteria ive heard of i do my weekly water changes without fail is it that wot keeps it at zero ammonia and nitrite are at zero as they should be as well any help would be grate thanks"
soo.. is there anything to this? maybe, maybe not.. but lack of effort to find out is something that's clearly visible.. means to make money/technology are visible a'ight
nothing really disappears, just ask yourself, if everyone pees and shits, where do those cleaning facilities dump the "water" that would usually over time fall within reservoirs below ground, getting filtered in the process?
In Serbia we're facing water shortages for decade but no one is dealing with it or working on it. All hilly/mountainous areas are dry.
complains about water rising and also water depleting... seems the problem is water retention... trees...
Why would you loose so much time in this material and give it away to explain dowsing?
In Germany.. Really
There aren't any shortages of anything. There ARE JUST TOO MANY DAMN PEOPLE.
It's not just Germany
Brewery owner should just call Rain man Mr.Gunther to drill up a well why suffer losses because inadequate supply for water company
Damn some people still belive in the dowsing scam. He is moving his hands to point the sticks down, this is the embarrassing for the community around to hire this guy to find water. Total waste of money and a pure scam.
Come to Malaysia, we have lots of water here.
The summary of climate change is easy.
It is the change of humidity in atmosphere, which produce between the (land)and the(seas & oceans) on the other hand...
Occurring of rains, snow, storms, and floods at time and in unexpected places, confirm my theory(the change in the directions of winds)which must be balanced...
How to reduce the heat of the earth and atmosphere?
We must supply the earth with a natural cooling places...
Results:
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1- To balance the water vapor which produces between the( ground)and the(seas and oceans )...
2- To balance the pressures of the air in the atmosphere...
3- To balance the directions of winds which caused the climate change...
4- To control upon the storms and harricans...
5- To revive the the first theory of climate change (dynamic horizontal movement).
6- To balance the percentage of gases forming the atmosphere.
NOTE :The lack of water vapor is of land not of seas and oceans...
These studies had completed and sent on July 26th 2000...
Yousif A Tobiya
Forcibly displaced
The Dowser is a genius and talented
Plant many trees.
Salute
Use less water,make the best use of water and creat more and more water swamp area,pond,canal etc.
Using less water is doable. Rules like banning car washing and garden watering using drinking water during drought, it forces home owners to buy rain water tanks to wash their cars and tend their gardens during these times. This is how it is done where I live in Australia. You can get a huge fine for hosing down your car during times of water restrictions.
@@AwesomeFish12
Plus govt. can impose more tax on the rich people who have swimming pole in their home,garden house,banglow etc😐
Beer shortages!?! Stuff just got real.
A bit ironic, considering how DW Documentary earlier produced a video on the subject. The irony: Elon Musk was at the opening of a new, water-intensive factory in Germany. When asked about drought and water scarcity, he nervously/arrogantly said they didn't exist. 🙄
@@californianussa2951 Musk does other things besides auto. SpaceX for example. Twitter, for another. The commenter didn't say an auto factory.
@@californianussa2951 Tesla can't risk workers leaving and not returning. Employees could simply relieve themselves in bottles - then turn the bottles over to a supervisor for use in production.
Now, that's an idea worthy of Tesla! 😺
@@californianussa2951 if it’s just an assembly plant, water usage won’t be that high.
If it ALSO manufactures parts and components then it will bea heavy user of water.
Usage of water has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with manufacturing processes.
So what's happened to the 'China and the Uhghurs' documentary you publiches 15 hrs ago? I managed to download it but it is no longer available on RUclips! I wonder why---?!
The border vigilantes, that's a lot of hate in a single person 😢
The invention of synthetic fertilizers and its consequences, the era.
State dictating farmers to how manage their business is one of the reason why Soviet Union collapsed. Our German friends seems to be following the same.
THAT is their goal though. U.N (germany, france, uk, us, etc deep states are TRYING to collapse western society.
Every country should start conserving water now, before it's too late. You too USA, especially you.
screw that noise. we WANT MONEY! money will buy the water we need. money has NEVER failed us!
We too in Finland? 188k lakes for 5.6 mil ppl only.
✨Permaculture✨
Farmers could be the ones to restore the water table if they farmed differently, instead they want permission to keep taking more and more. Climate change isn't the issue in this case. If permaculture farmers can rely entirely on rainwater even in arid climates, then German farmers can rely on only rainwater too, if they just used/stored it differently. Monoculture kiIIs the planet, and it kiIIs your business too.
2023(G) “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore:
Can't believe people still believe in dowsing 😂
I think the scariest thing is that they feel the need to
All that flood water could have been diverted to brew a lot of beer....
Do you all use individual water meters,they have saved 15 to 20% in apartments that have put them in Bengaluru. Partly due to people using less and more cause helps catch leaks in plumbing
Truthfully much better to get well water, then a solar pump.😎👍 People must learn to self sustain.
More desal plants like Middle East. Helps remove pollution also.
We can spend billons on war but spending that on desalination plants it out the question ?? How this even make sense