Water for life

By Saana Tykkä

Here in Vienna, we enjoy clean and tasty tap water. Yet, only few appear to know that water comes from the forests the city of Vienna owns in Lower Austria and Styria. These Viennese watershed forests, Rax, Schneeberg and Hochschwab, are well known to most Viennese from hiking and excursions. Less known is the fact that the majority of these areas belong to the city of Vienna, and that these forests are vital for the purification and securing the important essence for supporting our life: water.