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   Mina (mina@berlin.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 02:58:44 JST Mina

   If you look at the picture, you wouldn't think that #water might be a problem in this region, but not everything is what it seems.

   With only 580mm of annual rainfall, #Brandenburg is one of the driest regions in #Europe. It's just so flat that water has no place to run away.

   With the #ClimateCatastrophe, always hotter summers and always less snow in winter, the precarious balance of rainfall and precipitation is getting out of hand. Add to that the fresh water thirst of the Berlin

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     Mina (mina@berlin.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 02:59:19 JST Mina

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     metropolitan region with its >4 million people, ground water levels are falling at alarming rates.

     What erosion does can be seen only a few meters higher, when there is no protection by trees.

     The sandy ground is only covered by a few cm of fertile ground. A few dry years in a row could change the landscape forever.

     The only way to provide the region with enough fresh water would probably be a gigantic desalination plant at the Baltic sea (200km to the North) and and a huge pipeline.

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     Mina (mina@berlin.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 02:59:53 JST Mina

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     Needless to say that currently no preparations for a coming water emergency are taken.

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     Petra van Cronenburg (naturemc@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 03:00:09 JST Petra van Cronenburg

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     @mina And wait, there is this bad billionaire using water for his factory ... and laughing at all these concerns (together with a German Kaschperle): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye8zcgxWMDc