Today in Rhein-Main: Dat Wasser vun Frankfurt

Good evening,

Carsten Knop

Editor.

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I have often had the opportunity to cover the World Economic Forum in Davos for this newspaper.

One of the recurring themes there is water scarcity.

This is also what this newsletter is supposed to be about today, I apologize in advance for the slightly carnivalesque headline above this newsletter.

And then Franco A. makes headlines again, a name that you really wouldn't want to remember.

Also: American football is becoming more and more popular in Germany.

Are you also tired from watching the Super Bowl on TV last night?

That should apply to quite a few Frankfurters.

Regarding the water: A rapidly growing population, three hot summers in a row, possibly also criticism from the neighboring districts, from the Vogelsberg and parts of the Main-Kinzig district, have prompted the city of Frankfurt to develop a water concept.

In it, the municipal environmental agency, in cooperation with the suppliers Hessenwasser and Mainova, asked themselves how the city with the highest drinking water requirement in the Rhine-Main area can continue to meet its needs in the future.

After all, the forecasts for Frankfurt in 2030 envisage that the trends that were noticeable up until the Corona crisis – a rapidly growing population combined with more frequent hot and dry summers – will continue.

The answer is: Frankfurt intends to take water from the Rhine and Main

to be treated and allowed to seep away for additional groundwater extraction in the city forest, such as in the Hessian Ried.

Mechthild Harting reports.

About the magistrate: The first lieutenant in the Bundeswehr, Franco A., who has had to answer to the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court since May last year on suspicion of preparing a serious act of violence that is dangerous to the state, is back in custody.

A., who, according to the indictment, wanted to carry out attacks on politicians and civil society actors disguised as a Syrian refugee, was provisionally arrested by the police in his hometown of Offenbach on Friday evening after an identity check at the “Ledermuseum” S-Bahn station.

However, he was later released, the background was initially unclear.

On Saturday evening, the presiding judge of the State Protection Senate at the Higher Regional Court, who is negotiating the allegations, issued an arrest warrant “with urgent jurisdiction”.

This was justified by the fact that A.

About football: Our employee Nicolas Schoch spent last night in the "Waxy's" pub at the stock exchange.

There the sympathies belonged to the eventual loser;

every bad pass and every ball loss by the Rams was celebrated.

In the end it was a heart-stopping finale.

A touchdown one minute before the end shattered the Bengals from their title dreams.

However, the enthusiasm for a "really great game" prevailed among the pub visitors in Frankfurt.

At best, those who bet money on the wrong winner have lost.

But the host was satisfied and hopes for new regular guests.

And in addition

, the budget in Hesse is better than expected, the state can do without additional loans because tax revenues are bubbling

the Polytechnic Society Foundation is looking for excellent scientific work on Jewish life in Frankfurt.

Researchers who have published on Jewish history in the city or are planning a project can apply for the Rosl and Paul Arnsberg Prize and the Arno Funeral Prize 2022

is the east wing of Eberbach Monastery from the film "The Name of the Rose" known.

The last section of the general renovation is pending there.

Greetings from the editorial team,

Yours, Carsten Knop

The

for Tuesday

In the morning there will be a rain area, behind which the sun can appear from time to time.

New rain at night and windy at 6 degrees.

have birthday

on

:

Hans-Jürgen Müller

, former managing partner of the Metropress agency, Frankfurt (80);

, Bishop Emeritus of Fulda (79);

, agronomist and farmer living in Otzberg (68);

, managing director and publisher of the information service Platow Brief, Frankfurt (68);

, artistic director of the Rheingau Literature Festival, responsible editor for literature and literary life at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (56);

, Chairman of the Board of Taunus-Sparkasse, Bad Homburg (55).