KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 11.12.2024
… share (70 %) of water usage (cf. Indicator IG-R-1 ). Coolant abstraction by power plants for energy generation accounted for the lion share of commercial water … budget, at least until 2007. In view of the closure of the last remaining nuclear power plants after the April 2023 temporarily extended deadline, it is expected that cooling water abstraction by power plants will decrease further. Likewise, water use by private households and …