Heat and shortage of water: challenges for the Salzlandkreis!
Heat and shortage of water: challenges for the Salzlandkreis!
hardly to be grasped, but the heat not only creates people, but also nature. The Salzlandkreis faces a serious challenge: the shortage of water. Like Volksstimme reports, the region reaches temperatures up to 35 degrees at the weekend. These extreme conditions have an impact on everyday life, but also on agriculture and the environment.
The continued deficits of precipitation is tense with the situation in nature. A water height of only 1.08 meters was measured at the subdage of the Saale, while the normal level is 1.72 meters. The Fuhne also shows an even greater drying out, which causes the authorities to consider a ban on water with a water withdrawal from surface waters. However, the Salzlandkreis has currently dispensed with how the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
agriculture in stress
For farmers around Bernburg, the hectic use of the combine harvesters is already underway because the grain harvest has started. But the difficult conditions - extreme temperatures and water shortages - raise questions. According to Horsch we are in a dilemma: the water availability is either too little or too much that massively influences plant production.
An immense increase in evaporation and a falling nutrient availability due to extreme weather conditions make farmers a major problem. Future yield and quality security are on the brink. In addition, agriculture must adapt to these challenges and develop strategies to deal with the changing conditions.
initiatives and support
The older people in the communities are also particularly affected. In order to better support seniors during the heat, nursing services in Schönebeck develop special methods. It remains to be seen how the situation will develop in the coming weeks. The next public tours in the Graphics Foundation Neo Rauch on July 13, which give an insight into the exhibition "Neo - Drawings 1965 to 1968", seem almost irrelevant in the face of these challenges.
Unlike in many other places where water withdrawal bans have already been issued, the artificial irrigation of the fields in the Salzland district remains without restrictions, which gives farmers some air to breathe. However, the discussion about necessary adaptation strategies with regard to weather extremes is more urgent than ever. Experts and practitioners come together to talk about the challenges for agriculture in Central Europe.The action in the Salzlandkreis shows once again: climate changes cannot be ignored. Time is ripe for specific measures to protect our environment and agriculture.
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