Mundo-Reviving Germany's river landscapes (DW)

Mundo-Reviving Germany’s river landscapes (DW)

05 agosto 2024 Agua

31 de julio de 2024

Fuente: DW

Nota de: Anne-Sophie Brändlin

Foto de: UFZ

We have been altering river landscapes for hundreds of years for industry, energy, farming and building houses. River courses have been straightened, regulated, diked and deepened across the world.

Parts of their floodplains, which would usually provide space for overflowing water, have been drained and filled — sometimes with the idea that this could prevent floods. But it turns out: The opposite is the case.

We messed up rivers
In Germany alone, two-thirds of the floodplains along the 79 main rivers can no longer serve their original purpose of storing excess water because of the dikes built to stop water from reaching them. One third of the remaining floodplain areas are covered by fields and houses.

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