Drinking water supply systems in the district: “things are looking quite good”

drinking water supply systems in the district:

It's a topic that keeps coming up: nitrate levels in drinking water. Nitrate is considered harmful to health. Especially for small children, it can pose risks. To ensure that health is not impaired, the legislature has set a limit, which is currently 50 milligrams per liter (mg/l). A lower value is demanded from time to time.

All utility plants in habberge county are in compliance with the current limit, according to a survey of all 26 towns and municipalities conducted by our newspaper. But this does not relieve the communes of all their worries. It means: be vigilant!

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Japan’s exports not falling as much as feared

Japan's exports not falling as much as feared

Japan's exports continue to recover from the slump caused by the corona crisis, but are still well below the levels of the previous year.

In august, they fell by 14.8 percent compared with the previous year to 5.2 billion yen (42 billion euros), the japanese finance ministry announced in tokyo on wednesday. This is the smallest decline since march and also somewhat less than experts had expected. The sharpest decline was in may, when exports fell by 28 percent to 4.2 billion yen.

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Bathing accidents pile up in bavaria

Recklessness, overconfidence, self-overestimation, ignorance of the dangers and also lack of swimming skills – according to the german life-saving society (DLRG) these are the main causes of swimming accidents. Deaths mainly in bavaria: at least nine people died on bavarian lakes and rivers last weekend. The sad record was due above all to the rough heat. "At the moment it is warm and many people are drawn to the water", said the press officer of the DLRG, sebastian low, to the dpa news agency. "In the past years we had many rainy summers. Accordingly, fewer people went into the water – and correspondingly fewer drowned."

Bavaria in particular is a vacation destination. Many people from the center of germany are currently vacationing in the free state, low said of the high numbers in bavaria. Already in 2012, no other federal state had more drownings than bavaria: 75 bathing fatalities here; 383 nationwide.

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To stay in the frankenwald group or not?

To stay in the frankenwald group or not?

If the two villages continue to get their water from the frankenwald group association (G) and the town of teuschnitz pays its investment levy for the renovation of the water pipeline network, does it buy its way out or does it sue?? "The new town council is duty bound to resolve the issue. We will tackle this and find a solution", emphasized mayor frank jakob (). Since half of the members of the committee are new, they should receive this information first-hand in order to make their decision "in good conscience" to meet him. For this purpose he had invited chairman jurgen baumgartner and head of the association gerhard woller to the meeting.

"If teuschnitz wants to leave the G, that’s legitimate. This is the decision of the city council. I have nothing against it – but only on the condition that this is not associated with any disadvantages for the other communities and households involved," stressed mayor frank jakak, baumgartner made clear. He was not responsible for the situation of the special-purpose association. He had also not fought for the takeover of the office. Rather, in 2015, due to the disastrous situation with a renovation backlog of 65 million euros, no one else could be found. "The G was the special-purpose association in bavaria with the grossest lopsidedness", he denounced the fact that the previous leadership had not made a request for the renovation, despite the promise of 3.5 million euros in funding.

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Watchful eyes and bag checks

Watchful eyes and bag checks

Presence should ensure that guests feel safe.

The kulmbach police and the riot police were present – with more than three hundred men. The SEK security service, which has been providing security and orderly conduct on the event grounds for years, has been strengthened – and this year will also be present at the opening ceremony on the market square.

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French whisky from eggolsheim

french whisky from eggolsheim

"Smell it", says robert fleischmann, warms the glass once again between his hands and then hands it over "smell the joinery?" This is typical for whisky, where it is always about flavors between wood and chocolate. For production, for time, for traces. All this will be discussed at the international whisky fair in nurnberg this weekend. Right in the middle: the "blue mouse the fleischmann family.

In 1980, robert fleischmann could not have imagined that a schnapps idea would one day become germany's oldest single malt whisky distillery. Freshly returned from the navy to his hometown of eggolsheim in the district of forchheim, the trained baker acquired a distilling license and set up a distillery in his parents' residential and business house.

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Feature: Mark Zuckerberg has networked the world

Feature: mark zuckerberg has networked the world

In his letter on the borsen prospectus, he also focuses on the platform’s "social mission": it’s about "making the world more open and interconnected". With facebook’s stock exchange, this vision will turn zuckerberg from an aubenseiter at the elite university of harvard into a multi-billionaire within eight years. Zuckerberg holds a good 28 percent stake in facebook. If the stock is valued at 100 billion dollars, as expected, the 27-year-old would suddenly be a man with a fortune of 28 billion dollars.

Zuckerberg could have become a billionaire a long time ago, however. Back in 2006, then yahoo CEO terry semel confidently offered a billion dollars for the small network with less than ten million users. To the great surprise of the former hollywood fox semel, zuckerberg rejected kuhl, just as he had done with later lucrative offers. Facebook is his baby, his life’s work, and he doesn’t want to let it go.

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Weibenbrunn uses the savings potential

The building and environment committee decided on tuesday in the multi-purpose building to make further savings in electricity consumption, which will also protect the environment. Mayor jorg neubauer (SPD) was pleased to be able to bury bayernwerk’s municipal customer service representative edgar muller. Muller presented a status report and the concept for further action.

Electricity consumption for the 410 lights, 305 of which are LED, is approximately 90,000 kwh per year. The new concept will save about 40,000 kwh of electricity per year and reduce CO2 emissions by about 19 tons by converting all 410 lights. Accordingly, the total cost of the remaining 105 LED luminaires, around 26,000 euros, will be amortized in three years. The committee unanimously decided to continue the illumination with LED technology. The costs are to be financed through savings in electricity costs of 9000 euros per year over a period of approximately three years. The remaining 103 lights are to be installed in 2021. Hummendorf was excluded, because the expansion of KC 5 was awaited here.

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Zeiler weinhold wins two bronze medals

Zeiler weinhold wins two bronze medals

The fact that this success was not enough to qualify for the german championships was a bit of a nuisance for the 42-year-old. Weinhold presented himself in the "open master class" in a field with a strong field of players as well as in the "manner III" class two times very strong in the heinrich-lades-hall.

In the "open master class, in which there is no weight limit for athletes over 40, six of the eight participating athletes made it to the finals – including thomas weinhold, whose form this year was very good after being drained and after 14 weeks on a diet. Similarly in the men’s class III (up to 90 kilograms). Weinhold, who weighed in at exactly 85.9 kilograms, also made it to the finals in a class that was new to him. At the pre-selection here were also eight athletes on the stage.

The zeiler has the roughest fan group behind him

"after such a catastrophic year i didn’t want to start at all", the 42-year-old emphasized after several sporting and professional low blows. But because of the great support of his wife janina, who could not start this time for professional reasons, he will "also compete in the future, as long as it is possible healthwise."

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