Reducing environmental impact and securing the region`s future
(WorldNews Environment)

The discharge of wastewater into old mine areas, known by experts as `storing`, was included in the measures program of the Weser River Basin Community Environment Ministers as one of several options for saline wastewater reduction. `We want to safeguard the future of our Werra production sites. This also includes achieving a fair balance between economic and ecological goals. The planned storage of wastewater in the Springen mine will enable us to achieve the river management targets for the Werra and Weser, establish our saline wastewater management on a long-term basis and contribute to the remediation of a former mine in Thuringia,` says Dr. Burkhard Lohr, Chairman of the Board of...