After a low rainy winter, spring in many regions of Europe was the driest in 100 years. For this reason, the EU committee wants to make people more sensitization to water shortages and move them to save.
A water strategy must be presented before the summer, the responsible EU environment commissioner Jessika Roswall told various media on Monday. “We know that we have used too much water. We need a problem consciousness and a new attitude towards water,” the Commissioner explains. According to her, the goal is to reduce water consumption. “The industry, the farmers, but we as consumers must all be aware that water is a finite good,” Roswall emphasized.
Many EU countries have been affected for years
A size can be to make water consumption in households more transparent. “If people can see exactly how much water they use, they think more consciously,” said 52-year-old Swede. It was similar during the energy crisis when large savings suddenly became possible. In Europe, many countries have been suffering from increasing water shortages for years.
According to a Greenpeace examination, it could dominate in parts of the lack of water of Austria as a result of climate change. In the analysis published last year, the environmental protection NGO 471 municipalities throughout Austria “that run a high risk of acute water shortages in 2050”. More than half of the municipalities involved are therefore in the lower Austria.
Greenpeace requires “real water protection plan”
The organization called for the then Minister of Agriculture Norbert Tettschnig (ÖVP) to “launch a real water protection plan to the elections of the National Council”. “Glowing warmth, dry lakes and bath ponds that turn into small mud paints. The last two summer have shown that droughts are increasingly forming our country. More and more fields are being hit in which our meals with a shortage of water,” emphasized Sebastian Theissing-Matei from Greenpeace Austria.
Source: Krone
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