Gigantic water reserve: Expansion in Neusiedl secures Vienna's drinking water supply!

Gigantic water reserve: Expansion in Neusiedl secures Vienna's drinking water supply!

in Neusiedl am Steinfeld, a district of St. Egyden am Steinfeld, is currently being expanded by one of the largest water tanks in Europe. With its four chambers, he currently holds an impressive 600 million liters of high water water, which flows directly from the Lower Austrian Alps to Vienna without needing pumps. The Vienna city government is planning an expansion to a total of one billion liters by 2036 to meet the growing drinking water demand of the population, as orf.at .

The expansion, which is associated with costs of around 98 million euros, is a reaction to the constant population growth in Vienna and the challenges of climate change. According to krone.at , this step is to guarantee the city's security of supply. In addition to the water container in Neusiedl am Steinfeld, there are other drinking water memory in order to increase the entire Munich drinking water reserve to two billion liters by 2050 - which corresponds to the consumption of all of Vienna for five days

Two additional chambers

As part of this ambitious project, two new chambers will be added, which should offer a strategic reserve for the day-to-day drinking water requirements of the rapidly growing city population. This enormous expansion precedes comprehensive planning and construction site establishment phase before the expansion actually begins in 2025. The new capacity is to avoid a bottleneck in the water supply, which threatens due to the increasing consumption and climate change.

The expansion of the water storage is part of the comprehensive “Strategy Wiener Wasser 2050”, which not only includes the expansion of storage options, but also the maintenance and the expansion of the existing pipe network. The city administration is determined to secure the drinking water supply for the future through targeted measures.