You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. If it were only eggs you had to deal with ... If a road is to be extended, trees often have to give way, sometimes even houses. In Augsburg the extension of a major road is hindered by a brand-name filling station. This means that contaminations in parts of the buildings and contaminated soil have to be reckoned with ...

Rain, that's nothing unusual around here. All the more surprising that nobody ever thought of protecting landfills from it. Precipitation seeps into the landfill and dissolves pollutants. These may then seep into the ground-water. No pleasant scenario. That's why nowadays landfills have to be provided with an effective sealing of substructures and surface seal ...

When a business enterprise as big as the Berliner Wasserbetriebe is to be partly privatised, a lot of questions arise that have to be answered. After all, it is one of the biggest companies in the field of water management and sewage water disposal in Germany. A syndicate intends to purchase a stake of 49,9 per cent. And this syndicate - made up of the French conglomerate Vivendi, RWE and the Allianz - does not want to buy a pig in a poke ...