Springs as a luxury good

How Innsbruck’s drinking water remains drinkable

The reservoir at the Mühlau spring collects the water before it enters the pipes.

(Bild: IKB/Maria Kirchner)

Clean drinking water cannot be taken for granted, as the current case of Klagenfurt shows. The "Krone" asked how Tyrol's largest city can best protect itself from a similar scenario.

We often only realize that our high drinking water quality in Tyrol and Austria cannot be taken for granted when we are abroad - or when we suddenly can no longer drink it because it is contaminated, as is currently the case in Klagenfurt. Could something like this also happen in the Tyrolean capital? "We are doing everything we can to ensure that this is virtually impossible here," explains Robert Gschleiner, Head of the Water Division at Innsbrucker Kommunalbetriebe (IKB).