Groundwater research "Groundwater will soon be an issue for the population and politicians"

The World Groundwater Congress ended on Thursday in Davos with the Swiss Day and a particularly strong domestic presence. Researchers from all over the world agreed that groundwater will become an issue in politics and society in the near future.

As selected researchers explained to the media in Davos on Thursday, the important questions for the future of groundwater research are clear. To answer them, however, more research and more data are needed in all sub-disciplines, they emphasized in unison.

If there are problems with groundwater, this will be the case in Switzerland in the coming years to decades. This was explained by James Thornton from the University of Bern.

In Switzerland, groundwater is particularly important as it supplies 80 percent of drinking water, added Philip Brunner from the University of Neuchâtel. It is by far the most important drinking water reservoir in the world. "The importance of groundwater is on the rise," he said.