Brandenburg's Greens: Water removal prices urgently need to be reformed!

Brandenburg's Greens: Water removal prices urgently need to be reformed!

In Brandenburg, the situation around the water is drawn. The alliance green shed light on the problem and call for an urgently needed reform of the water withdrawal fees. The reason for this are the ever more frequent dry periods and the increasingly low levels that endanger the water supply. Andrea Lübcke, the state chair of the Brandenburg Greens, emphasizes the essential role of water as a basis for life and emphasizes the need to make pricing for water more fairly. It demands that the actual value of this precious resource is adequately reflected in order to create incentives for the water savings tixio.de.

A current measure that underlines the urgency of this requirement is the all-day ban on water withdrawals in Cottbus and in the Spree-Neiße district. From the end of June 2023, no water may be pumped out of rivers and lakes. Before that, the ban only had during the day. This ban concerns all surface waters in Cottbus and the catchment area of ​​the Spree in the Spree-Neisse circle. The water level on the level Leibsch has been under the critical value for over a week, which makes a drastic reaction required rbb24.de .

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The situation is tense: the water inflows from Saxon storage are used up, and the water available on site is no longer sufficient. The city of Cottbus is trying to stabilize the situation through water levies from dams, but due to the already exhausted contingents, this is no longer possible. All around, similar water withdrawal bans also apply in other districts of South Brandenburg for surrounding waters news-heute. .

A significant part of commercial water withdrawal in the region comes from industrial processes, especially as cooling water in the energy industry. The current price for industrial water withdrawal is only 0.58 cents per cubic meter. For comparison: in Berlin, the use of groundwater already costs 31 cents per cubic meter. This price difference calls on the alliance green that other large consumer groups such as agriculture and industry also want to take on tixio.de.