Dams: NRW dams: This is how the filling levels are after the drought summer

North Rhine-Westphalia has had a hot summer with record temperatures and a long period of drought. August was the driest and warmest month on record. The water levels of the rivers and streams have dropped to a minimum and so have the filling levels of the dams were low.

In the meantime, the situation has normalized again and it rained a lot, especially at the turn of the year 2023. the Dams in NRW are well filled again. You can see the exact filling levels in our overview.

Drinking water supply: The NRW dams are good for that

No drinking water without a dysentery – this is how bluntly the importance of the dams in NRW can be summed up. To the drinking water supply To ensure this, the dysentery must not dry out – this is why water is constantly draining from the reservoirs added. During the summer drought, the dams had to release significantly more water than flowed in.

There are no water reservoirs in the Ruhr area – all the more important are well-filled dams, into which new water flows regularly. Around 4.6 million people are supplied with drinking water from the Ruhr.

Since the drought summer they were Levels of the NRW dams steadily decreased. For comparison: in mid-November 2022, the Ruhrverband reported a filling level of 64.3 percent – in June it was still 90 percent. Towards the end of the year, the levels rose again.

These are all dams in NRW:

Ruhr Association:

Agger association:

Eifel-Rur Water Board:

Wupper Association:

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