Tag: Rhineland-Palatinate
Climate change has aggravated floods in NRW – knowledge
from Benjamin von Brackel After the devastating heavy rain in western Germany, it didn’t take long before the search for the culprit began. Was it a freak of nature that…
Interview on water and climate change: “Politicians are slow to react” – knowledge
How can you avoid a flood from becoming a catastrophe? Environmental scientist Claudia Pahl-Wostl on the right water strategy, the resistance of the citizens – and what Germany can learn…
Flood disaster: Laschet and Dreyer call for reconstruction funds – politics
The North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) is now calling for a special session of the Bundestag to launch the planned reconstruction fund for the victims of the flood…
Current floods: Wastewater flows into the Ahr – Panorama
Since the flood disaster, wastewater has been flowing untreated and untreated into the Ahr. All sewage treatment plants in the Ahr valley were affected and damaged by the floods, said…
Current floods: Medical care at risk – Panorama
Two weeks after the devastating floods in Rhineland-Palatinate, medical officers have criticized significant shortcomings in basic medical care in the flood areas. The situation is “still frightening” and there is…
Current floods: Government condemns lateral thinkers – Panorama
The federal government accused so-called lateral thinker groups of deliberate disinformation in the flood disaster and condemned this sharply. Deputy government spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer said that it was “particularly vile…
Current floods: No more missing people in NRW – Panorama
Two weeks after the flood disaster, no more people are missing in the affected areas of North Rhine-Westphalia. Interior Minister Herbert Reul said on Wednesday in the state parliament interior…
Flood current: Interest in elementary insurance – Panorama
After the flood disaster in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, insurance companies have shown a significantly higher level of interest in natural hazard insurance. The low pressure area Bernd reported Ergo-Versicherung…
Flood current – Seehofer: Warning via SMS soon – Panorama
Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer is confident that the so-called cell broadcast – that is, warning messages to the population via mobile communications – can be introduced quickly.…
Flood current: THW insulted in flood areas – Panorama
Volunteers from the Technical Relief Organization (THW) are sometimes disturbed and verbally attacked during their operations in West German flood areas. “It goes so far that our helpers are insulted,”…