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Rhine river levels in Germany back to normal after rain (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/957921

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The water should go into the ground, not down the rivers!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reporting from north eastern Germany: there's tons of water going in the ground here. More than I personally like. It's been raining on/off for two weeks straight.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but its not filling up the Groundwater sufficiently, it stays pretty much at the top and doesn't go deeper

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I read recently that Germany is missing so much groundwater in some regions, that it would have to rain constantly for a year and a half just to get refilled.

ZDF Article (German)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Which is long overdue. Yeah, it's not exactly inviting "let's spend the day outside" summer weather, but we've effectively had several years of drought, the rain is desperately needed.