Drinking water shortage

Have you ever had an unsafe feeling about water hygiene when showering at your holiday destination? With the start of this year’s holiday season, the risk of getting infected with legionella when showering in hotels, AirBnB and holiday flats as well as on campsites is increasing.

Legionella when travelling

Have you ever had an unsafe feeling about water hygiene when showering at your holiday destination? With the start of this year’s holiday season, the risk of getting infected with legionella when showering in hotels, AirBnB and holiday flats as well as on campsites is increasing.

Is microplastic in drinking water harmful to health?

Microplastic is a collective term for particles of different plastic materials that are smaller than 5 mm. It is produced by abrasion and decomposition processes of plastic, but is also added to personal care and cleaning products.

Drinking water is the Achilles heel of every mountain lodge

A lot can happen from the waterworks to the tap The outbreak of a severe gastrointestinal infection among numerous hikers at three mountain lodges in the Allgäu Alps kept the region’s mountain rescue and emergency services busy over the past two days. Thus, the guests complained of severe gastrointestinal complaints with massive vomiting diarrhea and […]

A lot can happen from the waterworks to the tap

German drinking water is the most controlled foodstuff. The German Drinking Water Ordinance (TrinkwV) contains binding limits for about 50 possible pollutants, for which the drinking water is permanently checked in Germany’s approximately 6,000 waterworks and treated accordingly.

Quality of drinking water resources at risk in many places​

Quality of drinking water resources at risk in many places​ Groundwater is the central drinking water resource in Germany: about 70 percent of drinking water is obtained from groundwater sources. Groundwater also plays a crucial role in many other countries around the world, feeding the wells of the many domestic water suppliers in the U.S. […]

Safe drinking water in times of heavy rains​

Safe drinking water in times of heavy rains The heavy rainfall events of the last two weeks in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy have shown the enormous natural force with which heavy rainfall can occur in today’s climate crisis. In the region between Bologna and Riccione, probably the heaviest rainfall in recent decades brought 200 […]

PFAS – the ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water​

PFAS – the ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water PFASs summarise a group of over 4,500 industrial chemicals. They are extremely stable and long-lived, accumulating and persisting in the environment for decades, if not centuries. Meanwhile, they can be detected even in the most remote areas. Experts speak of “forever chemicals”. They enter the human food […]

Periodic disinfection does not solve the legionella problem​

Periodic disinfection does not solve the legionella problem Legionella has been a concern for property owners for years. Although the rod-shaped bacteria are a natural constituent of drinking water, they multiply rapidly under the right conditions, such as stagnant water or temperatures of between 20 and 45°C in the often widely branched piping system. They […]