Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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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.

Filmed safely in September 2020: tomscott.com/safe

REFERENCES:
derwesten.de/region/rhein-und-ruhr/wenn-die-pumpen-stillstaenden-id12358775.html
fxreflects.blogspot.com/2008/12/ruhr-valley-secrets-richard-serras.html
-- and of course, my interview with the team from Emschergenossenschaft

Edited by Michelle Martin youtube.com/@OnTheCrux

Thanks to Bela Lempp and Daniel Fischer for the suggestion.

(Alternate title: "Iffen Pumperschtoppen, Der Deutschehabitaten Unterwasser". Alternate video: youtube.com/watch?v=6LvY6vQQET8 )

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