Controversial flood areas: Glauber seeks to continue construction

Climatological conditions - Controversial flood areas: Glauber seeks to continue construction

Hubert Aiwanger, Chairman of the Free Voters and Minister of Economics, has been questioned for allegedly hindering the construction of flutpolders. Flutpolders are areas surrounded by dikes that can be flooded during severe flooding events. In a radio interview on Wednesday, he defended himself by saying that flutpolders did not play a significant role in the current flood crisis because the most devastation occurred on smaller tributaries of the Donau, rather than the Donau itself.

2018 Flutpolder Report

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