If these pumps ever stop, part of Germany floods. 🔎🔍
🧐 · 02.11.2020 · 18:00:04 ··· Montag ⭐ 139998 🎬 3860443
📺Tom Scott
🧠 · 10.09.2024 · 23:53:13 ··· Dienstag
😎 · 11.09.2024 · 23:53:22 ··· MiTTwoch
The Ruhr Valley, in north-west Germany, is an industrial coal-mining area. And because of that kilometre-deep mining, parts of it have sunk, the drainage patterns have changed: and now, if the pumps of Emschergenossenschaft ever stop, quite a few towns and cities will end up flooded.
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REFERENCES:
https://www.derwesten.de/region/rhein-und-ruhr/wenn-die-pumpen-stillstaenden-id12358775.html
https://fxreflects.blogspot.com/2008/12/ruhr-valley-secrets-richard-serras.html
-- and of course, my interview with the team from Emschergenossenschaft
Edited by Michelle Martin https://www.youtube.com/@OnTheCrux
Thanks to Bela Lempp and Daniel Fischer for the suggestion.
(Alternate title: "Iffen Pumperschtoppen, Der Deutschehabitaten Unterwasser". Alternate video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LvY6vQQET8 )
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