Hungary’s new government must ensure a proper water supply to Lake Velence, in western Hungary, “as one of its first measures”, President János Áder said in his Blue Planet podcast.
In the programme, Gyula Reich, secretary of the water management council, said issues around notoriously low water levels in the lake could be resolved through a new schedule of replenishing the water from its two reservoirs, as well as from karstic waters nearby, and by adding purified sewage. The lake’s only natural source is a brook, which reaches the lake through two reservoirs near Zámoly and Pátka. According to Reich, a channel should be built from the brook to the lake bypassing the two reservoirs, which are in a neglected state and call for cleaning. Concerning the utilisation of purified sewage, Áder said re-using sewage was common practice in several parts of the world, noting that in Singapore it was bottled as drinking water.
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