Summers are getting drier and there are clear warning signs that we are heading towards water shortages worldwide. This is proven not least by the heat wave that is only just subsiding across Germany.

In an interview on Deutschlandfunk yesterday, Prof. Martina Flörke (Dep. of Engineering Hydrology and Water Resources Management) illustrates the research perspective and explains, how the nationwide concept for water supply announced by Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD) is to be assessed and what each of us can do.

The entire interview can be listened to here .