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| Sat, 25th Jul 2020 16:10:00 |
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Is selling tap water the solution to parched Poland’s drought problem? |
This spring, the country faced one of its worst droughts in a century – a climate emergency which follows a succession of equally dry periods over the last few years. Temperatures have reached record highs; Polish rivers have reached record lows. And experts have been left worrying about the future.
“We have a problem in understanding what climate change is, what a water shortage or a water management problem is,” says Professor Bogdan Chojnicki, from the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection at the Pozna? University of Life Sciences.
“We are really trying to convince people to think about the long-term.”
Last month, the picturesque city of Che?m, in the east of the country, announced plans which it says could help address the problem.
Che?m is famous for producing chalk with water extracted during the mining process used to supply local houses. At the moment, this process creates more water than residents need. It is estimated that around three million cubic metres have been wasted in recent years. Now, authorities say they want to put this resource to use by bottling the surplus and selling it.
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