By P Gosselin
Munich’s first ever water restrictions ever (by its first-ever Green mayor)… €50,000 fine if kids caught cooling themslves under a garden hose!
Real or feigned emergency?
Germany’s online BILD reports on drastic water bans just implemented by the city of Munich due to what he dubiously claims to be “an ongoing water shortage.”
Following a dry winter and spring, Munich’s water supply is repoorted to be “under severe strain”. Potable water consumption has spiked to over 360 million liters (compared to the usual 300 million liters). Since voluntary appeals to the public to save water were unsuccessful, the city is now cracking down on wasteful Munich citizens.
The following bans are effective immediately, according to BILD:
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- Car washing is only allowed at professional commercial car washes.
- Watering lawns is completely banned. Watering gardens, flower beds, and ornamental plants is only permitted overnight and in the early morning (between 7:00 PM and 9:00 AM)—unless a water-saving drip irrigation system is used.
- Filling private pools (including small inflatable ones used by children), fountains, and water features is prohibited.
- Pressure washers to clean private terraces, walls, streets, and roofs is banned.
- Pumping water from public lakes, rivers, or streams is strictly forbidden.
The city of Munich is also cutting back on its own water usage, which includes shutting down ten public fountains.
Munich’s first water consumption restriction ever – by its first ever Green mayor
This is the first time in Munich’s history that the city administration has issued such an extensive public emergency decree (Allgemeinverfügung) restricting domestic water use.
The decision was officially enacted by the city administration, spearheaded by Munich’s Lord Mayor (Oberbürgermeister), Dominik Krause, alongside the city’s Department for Climate and Environmental Protection (Referat für Klima- und Umweltschutz). Dominik Krause belongs to the green political party Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Alliance 90/The Greens). He assumed office as the Lord Mayor of Munich on May 1, 2026, after winning the runoff election in March 2026, making him the city’s first-ever mayor from the Green party.
Fines of up to €50,000 for violations
Violating these new regulations can result in fines of up to €50,000. The restrictions are currently set to remain in place until August 1, but could be extended if the situation does not improve.
Harsh criticism – needless drama
The draconian green water restrictions have been met with sharp criticism as Munichs’s water supply is claimed by others as not being acutely short. German blogger, Kolja Barghoorn here, for example, suspects the drastic water restriction measures are more about green drama-making and not a real water shortage.
At X, Thomas Woelfer shows that the water level from the city’s biggest source, the Mangfall, is at near normal levels — and is higher than it was last year at this time. Here is the water level since April 2025:
“You can clearly see from the trend that the panic spread by the Green mayor is entirely justified,” writes Woelfer at X.
Kolja Barghoorn feels the restrictions have nothing to do with an actual crisis, and everything to do with wanting to create one in order to spread panic.
Barghoorn wonders if Munich’s emergency decree also bans the watering or wetting of construction sites and access roads to suppress dust, he mockingly suggesting that people should ask the local CSU (the Christian Social Union party in Munich) if they have “any leftover COVID masks”. The dust levels in the city are likely to be much higher than usual in the coming weeks due to the water rerstrictions.
It’s the boy who cried wolf celebrating his arrival in office. Good luck with that.
Investment in professional car washes is about to pay off.
Does the term ‘professional car washes’ include the hordes of immigrants that set up in car parks and disused petrol stations I wonder.
“drastic water bans”
In Australia they would be reckoned low level. In fact most of the things restricted are permanently banned in Melbourne.
What is missing here is any data on storage levels. The graph shown is actually a river water level (in cm), as you can see from the occasional peaks. Munich gets most of its supply from groundwater, so that has to be watched carefully.
Very valid point Nick. I dislike skeptic sites misleading as much as alarmists. Play with a straight bat if you want to be credible. There clearly is an aquifer water level issue (there has been a generally prevalent recharge deficit for years) and by current forecasts they could get very low. Water restrictions are clearly prudent and not political.
https://gruvo.bgr.de/website/index.php?lang=en
From what I’ve seen it looks like the reduction in rainfall that refills part of the reserves already started in 2024. So any graph about 2025 already shows a lower than usual level.
Currently the city can only draw 60-70% of the usual value from Mangfall, so there is less there. The city itself has a 20% higher consumption due to the heat. Not a good combination.
There is also a conflict about water between the surrounding area and the city. Munich seems currently at the upper limit of drawing water from them.
Munich isn’t also the only city doing it. Hannover did it since June, and other cities and communities like Potsdam did it already last year. (But they don’t have a green mayor – so who cares, right?)
Europe isn’t the only continent with water problems
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/07/05/water-restrictions-drought-do-they-work/90765794007/
Thanks to climate change these things will happen more often – can’t outrun reality.
It’s more a lack of competence in planning.
E.g. the UK population has grown 20% since the last major new reservoir was built about 1992.
Indeed. Munich has gained ~70,000 in the last decade, largely through immigration. The climate crowd ignores what is actually changing in favor of the imaginary.
Yep last major reservoir built in UK was at Carsington in Derbyshire. It opened in 1991. UK population at the time was around 57.3m. It is now over 69m.
The Havant Thicket reservoir began construction in 2021 and is expected to be ready for use by 2029 although the UK does not have a great reputation for building infrastructure to plan!
The South East corner of England receives less rain per head of population than Morocco and it is getting worse as the population increases. We also get a fair bit of flooding. New storage built – zero.
With “climate change” to blame, you don’t need to have any competence in planning. Just look at MyLosernameRetarded’s comment.
Thanks to climate change
The gravy train goes ever on, right?
Der ist no shortage of gravy.
Bisto.
Ahh
Looking at the rain radar, the region has and had a lot of rain and thunderstorms this summer.
More gazing at your crystal balls? You can’t outrun reality, but keep trying!
That last line shows the shallowness of your thinking. You were actually spouting facts up until then. Whether they were accurate or useful facts would have been discussed if you had left it at that. But when you throw in your lies about climate change — why should anyone try to debunk your facts when you have already made them irrelevant?
Just start at the top. When you see “MyUsernameReloaded” that’s the signal that the whole comment is irrelevant.
The reason those things are banned in Melbourne is because it is well over 40 years since Melbourne added to its water storage and in that time the population has more than doubled.
And don’t come back at me with the Wonthaggi white elephant, that thing is a joke and a classic piece of Labor corruption, with it being half owned by union super funds that have retired Labor parasites sitting on their boards.
Melbourne is not short of dams. It is short of rivers. The big dam on the Thompson was the last really productive source, since rural interests decreed that water may not cross the Dividing Range. The next possibility is the Mitchell, but that is a long way away, and also has local stakeholders.
The desalination plant works.
Plenty of other rivers. Ovens River floods regularly, that would be a good one to tap. Same for the King River.
Both near to your old stomping ground. Plenty of hills in their upper catchments too. Or jump over a couple of hills to the north east and have a look at the Kiewa River.
All three of these rivers have been in minor flood over the last couple of weeks. And now all that water has gone out of the area, off to the sea it goes.
With regard to the water being on the north of the great dividing range, hell yes, keep the water in the north. Use it to replenish some of the permanent, legislated green river dumps that have been enacted, (killing off productive/former irrigated farms).
You remember farms, (now you are a city boy), they are the places that supermarkets get their food from.
“Ovens River floods regularly, that would be a good one to tap. Same for the King River.”
As I said, there is a long standing ban on bringing water across the Dividing Range, which goes back to Bolte’s time. The Labor Government did build a pipeline from Eildon to Melbourne (Sugarloaf reservoir), but such a fuss was made that it was never used. Eildon would be an ideal source.
That pipeline was supposed to be two way, so water could go either direction at need.
It was built one way, and can only take water from Lake Eildon to Sugarloaf.
And just for fun, Sugarloaf is not connected to the rest of Melbourne’s water supply and is the smallest of Melbourne’s reservoirs.
As for the Wonthaggi white elephant, the morons built a desalination plant without a power supply. Really good planning and execution there.
They should ban climate bedwetting.
They should ban red parties hiding behind green colors.
This green mayor is applying the so-called climate crisis to water and creating an alarming (non existent) shortage of supply with stiff penalties to help people believe.
The source areas of Munich’s drinking water are located in the Alpine foothills of Bavaria – in rock formations that yield clear and pure spring water. Therefore, M‑Wasser drinking water is a gift of nature. You can rely on it coming to you from the tap in consistent quality, fresh from the spring, day in, day out. Convince yourself of the quality of Munich’s water, one of the best drinking waters in Europe. – M/Wasser
I’ve driven down from Frankfurt through Bavaria, over the Brenner into Italy many times, which was why I remembered Munich’s proximity to the Bavarian alps….
Great, the site you linked also asks people to save water because supply is strained. Maybe not the point you wanted to make.
Driving from germany to italy doesn’t seem to make you an expert in water supply…
It isn’t the only source, silly.
Driving from England to Germany you see quite a lot of stuff too – even now Liege looks like the Germans pulled out last week.
So your point is / was … government scaremongering, here is an unrelated random quote from M-Wasser and I’ve been to germany / austria / italy ? Awesome. Have some participation points.
You haven’t proven that there is a shortage, only that you believe the people telling you there is one. See graph above.
What of Miesbach?
Tetchiness is an amusing quality in all your posts.
Now Strat, you know that the LosernamedRetarded always believes what his approved indoctrinators tell him! No need to think for the great unwashed masses of the useless idiocracy; that is always done for them by their lords and masters!
He does get uptight. But then, if I were continually wrong I’d be less than cheerful.
The aquifer level that feeds your ‘springs’ is where the problem lies.
There are multiple sources did you not get that?
I wonder if they have imposed limits on water based cooling of their data centres.
So which was cut off first, the list as published or data centre cooling?
If they are using water for cooling it would be a closed chiller / condenser loop. Filled one time at start up. A very small amount of makeup water because there are losses mainly due to water instability. I wish people would stop using this argument about data centers. BTW, most large buildings, including high rises use the same systems for cooling. Shall we ban those as well?
Don’t worry about dust levels. It’s cholera that’s coming to hit you with all those unwashed and crap-restricted citizens.
Munich may be an early warning, not a one-off. As drought, heat, groundwater depletion, and growing demand put more pressure on supplies, cities from Los Angeles and Phoenix to Delhi, Cape Town, and Mexico City could face tougher restrictions too. The smart response is not panic, it is fixing leaks, protecting aquifers, reusing water where possible, and planning growth around the water actually available instead of assuming the tap will always keep running.
Valid observations, but the onset of a serious environmental problem immediately following the election of a powerful green politician seems a bit suspicious to me.
Here’s the one million dollar question: “how do you get rid of these virtue signalling windbags for good?”…not voting them simply won’t cut it, so it seems…sadly & sarc
how
Douglas Adams (and maybe in the not too distant future Elon Musk can make it happen?)
The B Ark
a starship designed to relocate the (largely redundant) useless part of the population from the planet
Yes, but didn’t that starship land on a planet called “New Earth”? Well regarlessly time for another bath or a pangalactic gargleblaster .🤪😅 big 42 fan 😁😁
Change the trajectory better towards a black hole….always wondered how hollow and empty spaces can be reduced to a singularity…worth a shot to see the result or not?
My government is about to make the leaf the unit of currency….
Humanity can not afford to wait much longer to find a permanent solution to the Marxism mind virus! Obviously ignorance of history and human nature is the vast majority of the problem, but outright stupidity and insanity play a big part as well.
The best fix would be to designate certain areas as “Marxist Utopias” where all can enjoy the benefits this great world religion! Start with LA County, and maybe NYC since they’re already most of the way there, and let all the little kiddies practice socialism to their hearts content. But in order to reintegrate back into the rest of society you have to pass an IQ test and explain why Marxism never has and never will work. Easy peasy!
Upsetting our mad Ed
Labour appears to be hurtling towards civil war as speculation mounts that Ed Miliband will be passed over for the Chancellor role in Andy Burnham’s incoming Cabinet.
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Shabana Mahmood has reportedly moved into pole position to succeed Rachel Reeves at the Treasury when Mr Burnham enters Downing Street on Monday. Despite sources connected to Ms Mahmood, Mr Miliband and the incoming Prime Minister all maintaining that nothing has been decided, the Energy Secretary is said to be “furious” about the swirling rumours.
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Miliband’s frustration stems from his extensive involvement in shaping Mr Burnham’s economic approach over the past year. One Cabinet source told The Daily Mail: “Ed’s spent the best part of a year talking to Andy about his economic strategy. In the past fortnight he’s been the main person in with him and James [Purnell, Mr Burnham’s Chief of Staff] over putting together a package to reassure the markets.” – GBN
Et tu, Brute? Vere.
NB James Purnell is a long time good friend of the Prince of Darkness, Peter Mandelperson
putting together a package to reassure the markets
I cannot think of anyone less suited to putting a package together to soothe the bond market that keeps the UK one step away from financial collapse than the drooling idiot Miliband.
Also the level/flow of the Mangfall River (I assume that is what the graph shows) is a totally invalid indicator of water supply issues as it is managed. It’ll look fine until the moment the hydro dams and whatever else is fed in from reserves runs out.
“ Munich’s water supply is repoorted to be “under severe strain”
“repoorted”? I think you meant “reported”. 😎
And if they are Jewish kids are they taken from their parents? What a wonderful opportunity for the AfD to come in and make fun of the left, run a registration drive, organize a march on city hall. They just need to recruit 10% of the population and they will take control of the government. Actually, they could do it now if they didn’t mind being a little rough.
Goes without saying, crappy government on display.