The summer is expected to be very hot.
More and more municipalities in southern Sweden are already introducing irrigation bans.
The groundwater specialist’s call: Prepare for dried up wells.
It’s not just sunny, it’s also dry in southern Sweden and more and more municipalities are already choosing to put the brakes on water. For example, in Skurup, Sölvesborg and Borgholm it is forbidden to water the lawn or fill the pool.
For the farmers in southern Sweden and for households with their own water, it may be time to prepare for dried up wells.
– As our forecast looks like, we will have a similar situation as we had last year. If you know that you had problems or difficulties then you can probably count on having them this year as well, says Carl-Erik Hjerne, groundwater specialist at the Geological Survey of Sweden.
Less snow
He does not want to draw parallels to the drought in 2018, but according to Carl-Erik Hjerne, large amounts of rain are required, as groundwater levels will drop even in normal weather.
Municipal irrigation bans are also something we will have to get used to.
– We can see in our data that there is much less snow in Sweden now than there was a number of decades ago. It affects because the snow that melts provides a very good replenishment late in the spring, he says.