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No water, no whisky
The word “whisky” comes from GaelicGälischGaelic and means “water of life”. Water is essential to the production of nearly everything, and whisky is no exception. Glenfarclas whisky distilleryBrennerei, Destilleriedistillery takes its water from a natural spring that temporarily to go dryversiegenwent dry during last year’s heatwave. The distillery had to close for a month, causing production to drop by 300,000 litres.
“We lost the whole of September,” Callum Fraser, from Glenfarclas, told The Guardian. Many other distilleries are also having water-supply problems during the summer months.
The decrease in whisky production threatens an important part of Scotland’s cultural identity. Scotland began making whisky at least 500 years ago. Today, 109 distilleries to rely on sth.auf etw. angewiesen seinrely on springQuellesprings and rivers for the water they use. Some say these water sourceQuellesources are to run lowknapp werdenrunning lower from year to year because of Scotland’s increasing heatwaveHitzewelleheatwaves and dry spellTrockenperiodedry spells.
If steps are not taken to fight climate change, Scotland could suffer water shortageKnappheit, Mangelshortages every other yearalle zwei Jahre, jedes zweite Jahrevery other year by 2050, according to some estimateSchätzungestimates. Such shortages could put the production of whisky permanently “to put sth. on the rocksetwa: ernsthaft in Schwierigkeiten bringen (Wortspiel mit „on the rocks“ = mit Eiswürfeln)on the rocks”.