Tom Scott

If these pumps ever stop, part of Germany floods. (2020x48)

Air date: Nov 02, 2020

The Ruhr Valley, in north-west Germany, is an industrial coal-mining area. And because of that kilometre-deep mining, parts of it have sunk, the drainage patterns have changed: and now, if the pumps of Emschergenossenschaft ever stop, quite a few towns and cities will end up flooded.