Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
Baden-Wuerttemberg
Groundwater supplies largely stable: downward trend
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It doesn’t really look like bathing weather and upcoming summer holidays these days. The past few weeks have also been rainy. Did that at least help to replenish the groundwater supply?
Karlsruhe (dpa / lsw) – The above-average rainfall in June prevented further declines in the groundwater supply in the southwest. The stocks have neither increased nor have new ones formed, as the current report by the State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg in Karlsruhe shows. At the beginning of July, average groundwater conditions therefore predominate.
“Due to the current boundary conditions, a moderate decline in groundwater reserves is to be expected,” it says. Large-scale bottlenecks in the water supply are to be ruled out at the moment.
The experts found that the stocks stabilized in June. This has not been observed for several years at this time of the year, the report says. Compared to June 2020, even slightly higher groundwater conditions predominated. At measuring points in Ettlingen (district of Karslruhe), Engelsbrand (Enzkreis), Weidenstetten (Alb-Donau district), Gemmingen (district of Heilbronn) and Buchen (Neckar-Odenwald district), the data showed that the groundwater supplies were recently below average with a downward trend.
Soil moisture is expected to continue to decrease, explained the experts. The plants need a lot of water. This means that no new groundwater is formed even in damp weather.
© dpa-infocom, dpa: 210706-99-272266 / 2
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