A drinking water shortage threatens Utrecht: this island must solve it

A drinking water shortage threatens Utrecht this island must solve

Quick action is needed to prevent a drinking water shortage. This is what water company Vitens says. Yet a solution is not far away. On the ‘island’ of Schalkwijk, thousands of years old water flows that can be used as drinking water. Although it is still hidden, 140 meters below us. “This is how water continues to come out of the taps in Utrecht.”

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