Red bull plans spark the fear of lack of water near Berlin. world News

Small town of Baruth There is an hour -long train ride out of Berlin. Some 4,500 people live in nearby villages here and 12 who build municipalities. The forest and some areas dominate the landscape.
Two years ago, energy drink maker red Bull And its partner Rouch took over from a mineral water company, receiving its rights for 2.37 million cubic meters of groundwater every year.
So far, new owners have used less than half of that amount. But Uptake is set for more than doubled under the recently approved development schemes.
BrandenburgWhich surrounds the German capital, is one of the most dried areas of the country. It’s barely getting hit Climate changeThis winter fell here, less rainfall than any other German state. Increasing temperature and changing rain patterns are also leading to an increase in water loss due to evaporation – and, as a result, sinking groundwater levels.
Baruth’s Mayor Peter Ilk says that there is enough water to move around: “We are using the maximum 25% of the available 25% water. I don’t believe that we are an area that will be a problem in the near future. We are probably talking in the area of ​​30, 50 years,” he told DW.
The existing permits are unwanted, some 92% of the water being extracted by the local waterworks, Wabau, and go to the residents of 8% districts. Under the German law, water is designated as a normal property and is a priority on business requirements of the provision of drinking water.
Freedom information information challenge for red bull plan
A citizen who is worried sustainability And the transparency of the project has launched a legal challenge for plans with the help of a right-to-no-stage “Frag-Den-Stat” (asking the state). Advocate Ida Westfal said that its purpose was to tell the local authority what the Red Bull is getting in the subsidy case and how much it is paying for water.
Mayor Ilk reported that the water level was closely monitored by Brandenberg’s environmental agency and can be throtted in a state of concern for drinking manufacturers.
Groundwater, however, according to environmentalists, remains a scientific black box, making it impossible to know how much the deep underground is present and how quickly it is filled. Over-expatiation also bears the danger of contamination. The German Environment Association from Nabu, Bajoran Alor, searches the situation severely. In an interview with DW, he said: “I think we cannot allow any water intensive industries to go to Brandenberg. Especially when groundwater is involved.”
Richard Jacob from Nature Conservation Organization Bund told DW that the operation of Red Bull and Rowch could be “tolerated” only in terms of employment generation. “In fact, it’s crazy about what we are doing here. In dried Brandenberg we are producing large amounts of these drinks. And then we are taking them to Scandinavia by trucks where a lot of water is available. Or in Eastern Europe where there is too much water.”
No industry before reunion
In the 1990s, there was no industry to speak here in Communist East Germany. Baruth’s Mayor Peter Ilk is proud of the gleaming venture sector that he has helped to build employment opportunities outside the city outside and outside the city.
By bringing Red Bull and Rowch into the city, he said that some 300 jobs were rescued and another 150 to 200 would be made under new schemes. The municipality will get € 14 million ($ 15.9 MIo) grant from Brandenberg State for one construction water treatment plant For Red Bull and Rauch, the mayor said.
“It is durable, alone by the fact that we have secured a job here,” Ilk said. He said that residents should not be forced to travel 70 kilometers (43.5 mi) in Berlin or other places, but should be able to work at the local level. But the Mayor also admitted that the biggest problem of Baruth was attracting families with families with children due to lack of land and construction land. Most of the surrounding rural areas have been designated as a conservation area.
Shopkeepers out of one of the local supermarkets in Baruth reported that they support DW employment opportunities that he is making and tax flow in the city. However, some of the voices of “non-European” workers criticize that Vikas has allegedly brought to the city, or is related to cutting 16 hectares of forest to make way for an aluminum canning plant as incompatible with the stability agenda of the city. None of them wants their name to be published.
Lack of stability
Red Bull also gets its water from Austria and Switzerland. In 2023, it was nominated for a booby prize for “Transport Nonsense” by Swiss Environmental Organization “Alpain-Inventive”, which was extracted as an energy drink in all ways around the world in all ways of water released in Alps. Many beverage manufacturers only export syrup, which is then mixed with water locally.
Anxiety about the expansion of the soft drink plant has also been done in Brandenburg, by reports of Granhyde. American Automker Tesla had installed a huge plant several years ago – and protests about its heavy water consumption and forest beats.
Workers of 150 separate nations now work at the Tesla plant in Grunahide. Many beyond Berlin or beyond the Polish border. Works Council President Michela Shamitz told RBB Public Radio that most of the employees come from Germany, Turkey, Poland, Syria and India.