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Klagenfurt without drinking water: What now?

As in Italy, for example, now here too: no drinking water.(Bild: Hannes Mösslacher )

Carinthia's provincial capital has been without drinking water for days. How Klagenfurt's plight reveals sensible and nonsensical...

Corona has not done us all any good. And its effects extend far beyond the infection, whether mild or severe. And we have obviously learned too little or nothing at all from the pandemic and its negative effects. There's no other way to understand why people in Klagenfurt are once again saying that they think "the pollution of drinking water" is some kind of conspiracy, perhaps even a hidden advertising scam for expensive bottled water...

Or when others raid shelves until there is nothing left. And then others insult the staff because there's nothing left. Just as happened with toilet paper at the start of the 2020 pandemic. But other nonsense is also told. I read the recommendation to boil water for three minutes. But kettles or coffee machines would also do. But hello, do they boil for three minutes?

Drink good water and think
The fact is, a person should drink the following amount of water per day: body weight times 35 in milliliters. At 75 kilos, that's 2.6 liters. Not pallets of nine liters each. But not a little either. For the whole of Klagenfurt, that's a recommended 260,000 liters. Per day. We should drink good water, appreciate it. And think about it.