The city of Hof in Upper Franconia has issued a boiling order due to contamination of the drinking water. During a routine sampling, the municipal utilities discovered contamination with germs, the city announced on Thursday.
Over eight tons of metal sludge flowed into the sewage system at a metal finishing company in Toggenburg over a period of two years. The negligent behavior was discovered during an inspection by the Office for the Environment. The company and its managing director have now been sentenced.
In parts of the Emmental municipality of Röthenbach, the water smells and tastes of chlorine because it was previously contaminated.
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Ebermannstadt/Gasseldorf - The drinking water source in Gasseldorf will remain off the grid until the fall. The town of Ebermannstadt and the local public utility company emphasize that this is purely a precautionary measure. The reason: bacteria can penetrate the water.
The consumer magazine "K-Tipp" had its readers' drinking water tested for 29 toxic substances. Around half of the samples were positive.
Many Swiss municipalities have a drinking water problem. This is shown by a K-Tipp reader survey. Almost half of the samples analyzed contained harmful PFAS, which hardly degrade in the environment.
Concentrations of plastics in round-the-world race through remote ocean environments found to be up to 18 times higher than during previous event in 2017-18
Geologists discovered the impressive liquid in a Canadian mine. It is several billion years old and has a special taste.