Overview
- On Thursday the newly created Taskforce Wasser, led by Mayor Dominik Krause, held its first meeting to coordinate immediate savings and contingency steps.
- Stadtwerke München say the drinking supply is still secured but groundwater is low and a June heatwave drove daily use from about 300–350 million liters to more than 400 million, putting the system over 90 percent load.
- The city has turned off at least ten decorative fountains, reduced runtimes for 56 water features and suspended some municipal cleaning services to cut roughly a million liters per day.
- Officials have appealed to residents and businesses to reduce use, begun drafting a long-term resilience strategy with the SWM and upstream counties, and warned that binding extraction or use bans could be imposed if demand stays high.
- About 75 percent of Munich’s supply comes from the Mangfalltal and groundwater recharge can take weeks to months, so persistent dry conditions could force legal limits that would affect lawn watering, pools and some business uses.