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Local authorities in a west German town that is home to a German Armed Forces site partially lifted a drinking water warning on Friday a day after it was issued following the discovery of a cut fence at a drinking water reservoir. Investigations by a special fire brigade unit had shown that the water was not biologically or chemically contaminated, a spokesman for the town of Mechernich said. Citizens are allowed to use water again for showering and washing, but should still boil water before drinking it as a precaution, he said. Bacterial contamination would be investigated further, the spoke...
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Local authorities in a west German town that is home to a German Armed Forces site partially lifted a drinking water warning on Friday a day after it was issued following the discovery of a cut fence at a drinking water reservoir. Investigations by a special fire brigade unit had shown that the water was not biologically or chemically contaminated, a spokesman for the town of Mechernich said. Citizens are allowed to use water again for showering and washing, but should still boil water before drinking it as a precaution, he said. Bacterial contamination would be investigated further, the spoke...
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Local authorities in a west German town that is home to a German Armed Forces site partially lifted a drinking water warning on Friday a day after it was issued following the discovery of a cut fence at a drinking water reservoir. Investigations by a special fire brigade unit had shown that the water was not biologically or chemically contaminated, a spokesman for the town of Mechernich said. Citizens are allowed to use water again for showering and washing, but should still boil water before drinking it as a precaution, he said. Bacterial contamination would be investigated further, the spoke...
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Local authorities in a west German town that is home to a German Armed Forces site partially lifted their drinking water warning on Friday a day after it was issued following the discovery of a cut fence at a drinking water reservoir. Investigations by a special fire brigade unit had shown that the water was not biologically or chemically contaminated, a spokesman for the town of Mechernich said. Citizens are allowed to use water again for showering and washing, but should still boil water before drinking it as a precaution, he said. Bacterial contamination would be investigated further, the s...
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Local authorities in a west German town that is home to a German Armed Forces site partially lifted their drinking water warning on Friday a day after it was issued following the discovery of a cut fence at a drinking water reservoir. Investigations by a special fire brigade unit had shown that the water was not biologically or chemically contaminated, a spokesman for the town of Mechernich said. Citizens are allowed to use water again for showering and washing, but should still boil water before drinking it as a precaution, he said. Bacterial contamination would be investigated further, the s...
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Local authorities in a west German town that is home to a German Armed Forces site partially lifted their drinking water warning on Friday a day after it was issued following the discovery of a cut fence at a drinking water reservoir. Investigations by a special fire brigade unit had shown that the water was not biologically or chemically contaminated, a spokesman for the town of Mechernich said. Citizens are allowed to use water again for showering and washing, but should still boil water before drinking it as a precaution, he said. Bacterial contamination would be investigated further, the s...
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The local health department warned people on Thursday not to use the water in a western German town after the discovery of a cut fence at a drinking water reservoir. The news of the potential contamination in Mechernich in the state of North Rhine Westphalia came the day after the German Air Force barracks in Cologne was closed due to the initially unconfirmed suspicion that the water supply may have been sabotaged. The German Armed Forces, or Bundeswehr, site in Mechernich also sources its water from the reservoir where the fence was cut, a notice on the town's homepage said. It is now being ...
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A German military base near Cologne has been closed off on Wednesday after suspicions arose its water supply had been tampered with in an act of sabotage. The Cologne-Wahn base, which employs around 5,500 people, including some 1,200 civilians, was alerted after damage to its fence was found in a remote part of its perimeter. The employees at the base were told not to drink the tap water because of possible contamination and samples have been taken for analysis, domestic press is reporting. Army barracks have been cordoned off and can't be entered or exited. The base, in close proximity to the...
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A huge reserve of fresh water has been discovered hidden beneath Sicily’s Iblei Mountains. The vast freshwater reserve is believed to contain around 17 billion cubic metres of water and is between 700 and 2,500 metres below the surface. It could hold the key to solving Sicily’s ongoing drought, one of the worst in Europe. “It’s a very important study which could be fundamental to solving a problem that is putting Sicily in serious difficulty,” says Professor Lorenzo Lipparini, researcher at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). “According to our calculations, there could...
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Water reserves are running dry in parts of Italy, leading some politicians to demand urgent action on the climate emergency. “The climate crisis is not ideological, it is a dramatic reality in Sicily,” Angelo Bonelli, spokesperson for the Europa Verde (Green Europe) political party, said while rallying outside government headquarters in Rome on Thursday. “Farmers are uprooting vineyards, citrus groves, they are slaughtering animals because there is no water. This is a disastrous situation.” Condemning the silence of PM Giorgia Meloni on the issue, he said the government is “leaving an entire r...
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