\u2026 may seem unremar\u00adkable at first glance \u2013 about the size of one and a half football pitches -, yet great things happen on this area:<\/p>\n
Year after year, up to 800,000 litres more clean ground\u00adwater are generated here on average than in pure conife\u00adrous forests. That is enough to supply around 800 people with drinking water \u2013 families, neigh\u00adbours, children, friends and colle\u00adagues who depend on it every day.<\/p>\n
A drinking-water forest is created when a pure conife\u00adrous forest area is converted back into a species-rich mixed deciduous forest through the planting of deciduous trees. Its diverse tree species form a stable ecosystem that promotes humus forma\u00adtion, which filters and stores rainwater parti\u00adcu\u00adlarly well. In this way, a drinking-water forest protects our most important liveli\u00adhood \u2013 water. At the same time, it stores carbon, provides shade, cools and creates habitats for count\u00adless species.<\/p>\n
In profes\u00adsional forestry, a hectare of mixed deciduous forest \u2013 depen\u00adding on the region and forestry practice \u2013 is usually estab\u00adlished with 4,000 deciduous tree saplings. This means that anyone can ecolo\u00adgi\u00adcally secure their own annual drinking water needs if they have around five deciduous trees planted.<\/p>\n
In times of climate change and water scarcity, planting deciduous trees is more important than ever. Mixed deciduous forests are more climate-resilient than conife\u00adrous forests, and every deciduous tree is a silent hero: it cleans the air, enriches the soil, cools, protects the climate, provides habitat for many species and gives us clean water.<\/p>\n
Ein Hektar Trinkwasserwald… … klingt vielleicht unscheinbar \u2013 etwa so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-waldwissen"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n