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It's dry. Very dry. Rivers fall dry, goods can no longer be supplied, harvests fail and cracks occur in houses due to the low groundwater level. In the Netherlands, it goes without saying that there is always plenty of clean drinking water available. We even flush the toilet with it. But the hot spring and summer, the low water table and the increased use due to many people working from home and going on vacation in their own country are currently causing scarcity.


In order to manage the distribution of water in the event of scarcity, the government has drawn up the 'displacement series' — a set of priority rules for the distribution of available (fresh) water in times of shortage. The starting point is that the irreversible damage with a high impact is mainly limited: cracks in a peat dike will not recover on their own when it rains again, and a dike breakthrough can have major consequences,

If you follow recommendations regarding saving water, you will save 177 liters of water a day but that doesn't mean as much as it takes about 2500 liters of water to produce a 110-gram hamburger. What about our 'hidden' water use?

One liter of cola costs 70 liters of water For example, I recently read that making 1 liter of cola requires no less than 70 liters of water. 70! Part of that goes into the bottle, but the vast majority is needed for the production process. And if you also include the production of the ingredients, such as sugar from sugar beet, you end up with 70 liters required for a liter of cola. At least, if we count with sugar from the Netherlands, because the production of sugar in other countries involves much more water. Incidentally, this does not only apply to cola, of. Water is also involved in the production of tea, coffee, milk and alcoholic beverages. The calculations come from waterfootprintorg :

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