Water shortages – that wasn’t an issue in Germany for a long time. But with the long-lasting drought in 2018 and the two years that followed, that suddenly changed: fields withered, forests burned, shipping on the Rhine had to be stopped due to extremely low water levels, the chemical company BASF reduced production, and power plants reduced electricity production due to a lack of cooling water. The damage to farmers, energy producers and companies ran into billions.
At the latest, the issue of water (lack of water) moved onto the Berlin political agenda.
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