There is not much land without construction so the water cannot get underground?
We like our cars clear?
Floods
Lots of people, not a lot of ground water?
A lot of concrete and outdated water management infrastructure make it difficult for the ground to absorb water and leads to water stress.
Just keep on building, everything will be fine. Concrete stop? Can’t punish those poor real estate developers.
Have you been living under a rock the past 3 or so years?
Alot of our rivers come from other countries and flow to other countries. This with alot of urbanization
my neighbours has been watering their lawn every single day for months now. i’ve seen people hose their house down every day when temperatures get to 30+. as long as we keep doing stupid things like this it will not get any better.
Weird how it drops like a rock at the northern border, weird.
Poor water management and an unwillingness to do something because it angers the farmers.
There was a plan called the blue deal to do some water management, which was already the bare minimum, but then the department responsible came in to the hands of CD&V and they immediately scrapped like half of it to appease the farmer lobby.
PFOs almost everywhere on flanders, brussels+brabant, in wallonia along meuse/maas and big cities
Because we belgians instead of building dam’s and water reservoirs we pump out of our natural resources of underground water.
No real above ground water reservoirs, and we draw most of our water from deep underground. If it doesn’t rain for a long time, the underground reserves dry out and we’ll have nothing.
One reason why we should never split. Flanders on its own has severe water supply issues
beton beton beton
Because Holland is stealing our water.
Because Flanders is stealing Walloon waters 😀
Simple answer: this map is crap!
The country is about 80% beton. The rest lawn that people seem to be watering, and cars that apparently need a weekly wash. We’ve got a dude in our street who washes his two cars every other day. Those people should be forced to only drink from a well (we live on top of a very rocky hill, so digging that well is quite the punishment)
“Human water demand vs. availability”; and apparently we’d be stressing “extremely high (>80%)” by 2050. But what does it mean? :l Enough water to go around for the people in Sudan not to stress?
Just a practical example from recent times: we had rain pretty much *all year long* last year. So the reserves should be filled to the brim, it was pretty much an ideal situation. Then just a couple dry months happened in spring, when it wasn’t even hot yet, and we’re already limiting water intake. That’s how vulnerable we are.
Also almost no large freshwater lakes that can be used in an emergency.
we lose like 180 mil liters a day cuz poor sewer system
Wasteful use of water for private, agricultural and industrial use. Farmers should look into crops that can survive the changing climate. Private users should not use drinking water for filling their pools as much and certainly not for keeping their lawn bright green in dry months.
Leaking water mains.
Deforestation.
Old-fashioned policies from a time when people thought draining land in the wrong places and draining rain water to the rivers ASAP are not quickly reversed. Our new Flemish minister Brouns is already trying to reverse actions that were implemented to reverse the bad old policies. But he´s an idiot.
Flanders is a sea of concrete.
Mostly it´s sheer stupidity that wasn´t a problem until climate change reared its ugly head.
I feel like it’s mainly a problem in Flanders, where practically everything is paved over and the groundwater levels are very shallow. It makes me laugh how some of them see themselves as the richest region economically, but in terms of nature — which is the only thing that truly matters — they’re in a state of extreme poverty.
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There is not much land without construction so the water cannot get underground?
We like our cars clear?
Floods
Lots of people, not a lot of ground water?
A lot of concrete and outdated water management infrastructure make it difficult for the ground to absorb water and leads to water stress.
Just keep on building, everything will be fine. Concrete stop? Can’t punish those poor real estate developers.
Have you been living under a rock the past 3 or so years?
Alot of our rivers come from other countries and flow to other countries. This with alot of urbanization
my neighbours has been watering their lawn every single day for months now. i’ve seen people hose their house down every day when temperatures get to 30+. as long as we keep doing stupid things like this it will not get any better.
Weird how it drops like a rock at the northern border, weird.
Poor water management and an unwillingness to do something because it angers the farmers.
There was a plan called the blue deal to do some water management, which was already the bare minimum, but then the department responsible came in to the hands of CD&V and they immediately scrapped like half of it to appease the farmer lobby.
PFOs almost everywhere on flanders, brussels+brabant, in wallonia along meuse/maas and big cities
Because we belgians instead of building dam’s and water reservoirs we pump out of our natural resources of underground water.
No real above ground water reservoirs, and we draw most of our water from deep underground. If it doesn’t rain for a long time, the underground reserves dry out and we’ll have nothing.
One reason why we should never split. Flanders on its own has severe water supply issues
beton beton beton
Because Holland is stealing our water.
Because Flanders is stealing Walloon waters 😀
Simple answer: this map is crap!
The country is about 80% beton. The rest lawn that people seem to be watering, and cars that apparently need a weekly wash. We’ve got a dude in our street who washes his two cars every other day. Those people should be forced to only drink from a well (we live on top of a very rocky hill, so digging that well is quite the punishment)
“Human water demand vs. availability”; and apparently we’d be stressing “extremely high (>80%)” by 2050. But what does it mean? :l Enough water to go around for the people in Sudan not to stress?
Just a practical example from recent times: we had rain pretty much *all year long* last year. So the reserves should be filled to the brim, it was pretty much an ideal situation. Then just a couple dry months happened in spring, when it wasn’t even hot yet, and we’re already limiting water intake. That’s how vulnerable we are.
Also almost no large freshwater lakes that can be used in an emergency.
we lose like 180 mil liters a day cuz poor sewer system
Wasteful use of water for private, agricultural and industrial use. Farmers should look into crops that can survive the changing climate. Private users should not use drinking water for filling their pools as much and certainly not for keeping their lawn bright green in dry months.
Leaking water mains.
Deforestation.
Old-fashioned policies from a time when people thought draining land in the wrong places and draining rain water to the rivers ASAP are not quickly reversed. Our new Flemish minister Brouns is already trying to reverse actions that were implemented to reverse the bad old policies. But he´s an idiot.
Flanders is a sea of concrete.
Mostly it´s sheer stupidity that wasn´t a problem until climate change reared its ugly head.
I feel like it’s mainly a problem in Flanders, where practically everything is paved over and the groundwater levels are very shallow. It makes me laugh how some of them see themselves as the richest region economically, but in terms of nature — which is the only thing that truly matters — they’re in a state of extreme poverty.
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