Denmark will invest 60 billion DKK to face high groundwater level

A broad majority in the Folketinget approved a climate adaptation plan that will take shape over the next 75 years, impacting wastewater utilities

The areas of Copenhagen that may be affected in the event of a powerful storm surge. Photo: SundogBælt.

The government and many of the parties sitting in the Folketing—the Danish Parliament—have approved a large plan to face the rise of the groundwater level, which over the next decades could damage the foundations and basements of half a million properties in Denmark, as well as infrastructure such as roads and railways, and underground utilities […]


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