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The Weiße Schöps in 2014, which flows into a new riverbed in Rietschen. / Photo: Matthias Hiekel/dpa/Archivbild

Conservationists help local authorities to maintain bodies of water

The German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND) wants to help municipalities in the lignite regions affected by structural change to maintain their watercourses. The association announced in Chemnitz on Thursday that the "Living Banks" project will support them in meeting EU ..

Passers-by stand on the Terrassenufer in Dresden on the Elbe / Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa

Rising water levels on the Elbe

People living along the Elbe must be prepared for further rising water levels. According to the State Flood Center, alert level 3 should be reached in Schöna in Saxon Switzerland on Tuesday afternoon and is expected in Dresden on Wednesday morning.

Water running out of a faucet / Photo: Philipp von Ditfurth/dpa/Symbolbild

Dresden needs water: new river power plant planned on the Elbe River

Dresden wants to secure its future water supply and is planning a new water system including a river power plant on the Elbe. The total investment should be more than 320 million euros, the administration announced on Thursday. The state capital is thus responding above all to the huge water require ..

Michael Kretschmer (CDU), Minister President of Saxony, attends a press conference / Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa

Kretschmer sees water supply as a central task

Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer (CDU) sees the water supply as a central task for future development in the Free State. This is a task that could not be solved on the side, he said on Tuesday evening at the summer festival of the Association of Saxon Business in Radebeul.According to ..