Keine Gefahr für Touristen - offizielle Pressemitteilung

7. Oktober 2010
Das ungarische Innenministerium teilt mit, dass der Bruch des Dammsystems in der Umgebung der Gemeinde Ajka und das damit verbundene Auslaufen des chemisch belasteten roten Schlammes aktuell keinerlei negativen Auswirkungen auf die touristischen Regionen Ungarns hat.
Die Infrastruktur ist nicht betroffen. Urlauber können bedenkenlos mit Auto, Bahn oder Flugzeug in alle touristisch relevanten Regionen Ungarns reisen. Ausflüge, Städtetouren oder sonstige touristische Programme sind in keiner Weise eingeschränkt.
Das Innenministerium sowie das Ungarische Tourismusamt informieren über die aktuellen Entwicklungen auf ihrer Website. www.redsludge.bm.hu

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October 11, 2010
Red Sludge Disaster: No Threat to Tourist Destination Areas
The water resources and water supply of Hungary, including tourist destination areas continue to be unaffected

Upon request from the Hungarian National Tourist Office, the National Directorate General for Disaster Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs hereby informs service providers and institutions involved in Hungarian tourism as well as individual tourists that Hungary's key tourist destination areas continue to be completely unaffected by the red sludge disaster.

The water resources and water supply of Hungarian tourist regions that are popular among and are frequently visited by foreign tourists, such as Budapest, the Lake Balaton, the medicinal lake of Héviz in the Balaton region and other cure locations in Western Hungary and elsewhere in the country are not endangered and it is completely safe to stay and consume water in Hungary's tourist destination areas.

Tourist flows into Hungary are entirely unhampered, and all the components of the complete tourist infrastructure, including airports, accommodation establishments, other providers of tourist services and attractions are available for guests as usual.

The latest news updates relating to the sludge pollution are continuously accessible at redsludge.bm.hu, a website operated by the Hungarian government.
Weitere Pressemitteilungen siehe weiter.

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Report on the latest situation of the red sludge catastrophe - October 7, 2010

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Official Translation of the Press Release of Waterworks of Budapest

Date: October 7, 2010
Mains water is under strict control and safe to consume in Budapest

We keep the water of the Danube, the section of the riverbank where drinking water wells are located, the wells and feeding points under strict, round-the-clock control with checks performed every two hours. We are installing equipment to take pH values continuously and measured data are monitored online by staff in our command centre. On the basis of our potable water security and water resource protection plans and activities we can guarantee that the water released into the system is always healthy.

Following the red mud pollution near Ajka, the Waterworks of Budapest immediately contacted disaster prevention experts and water utilities operating in areas north of Budapest to obtain updated information on the potential impacts of the pollution upon the Danube. Our professionals have taken all precautionary measures envisaged in our potable water security plans: we keep the water of the Danube, the section of the riverbank where drinking water wells are located, the wells and feeding points under strict round-the-clock control with checks performed every two hours. We are installing equipment to take pH values continuously and measured data are monitored online by staff in our command centre.

The municipal water supply system ensures that the supply of mains water in Budapest is secure. Water production wells use bank filtering technology, which is a slow purification process that removes pollutants from water at very high levels of efficiency. The water supply system is based strictly on bank filtration, no surface water is taken from the Danube, and we also have purification plants in Csepel and Rackeve in addition to bank filtration. Also, wells lie substantially lower than the level of the Danube riverbed. As our capacity to produce drinking water surpasses the demand substantially, we also have the option to operate only the wells that are located the farthest away from the Danube until the pollution has moved completely downstream. At the same time, once the water of the Raba with pH above 7.5-8, the normal level of typical of the Danube, reaches this major stream where the rate of flow is 2600 m³ per second, it will get diluted considerably.

On the basis of our potable water security and water resource protection plans and activities we can guarantee that only healthy water is fed into the system.

www.vizmuvek.hu

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Official Translation of the Press Release of Pannon-Víz. Zrt.

Date: October 7, 2010
Mains water is under strict control, secure and safe to consume

The wave of pollutants from the red mud disaster on 4th October is travelling down the rivers of Győr in these hours.
Our potable water resources are safe and mains water is safe to consume. Our accredited laboratory monitors water quality in the mains, in the production wells and in the ground water observation wells simultaneously with independent laboratories. No disorders have been detected.

We supply drinking water to Győr from bank filtered wells located in the region of Szőgye and Győr-Révfalu. Water bases are located along the rivers upstream from the route along which the pollution travels.

Our water resource protection plans provide us with capabilities to model sub-surface water movements. On that basis, we can safely say that the pollution travelling down the Moson branch of the Danube will not influence the quality of our water bases for the next fifty years. Nevertheless, we are giving even greater priority to water resource protection than before.

To conclude, we reject malignant allegations about the degree to which the pollutant travelling downstream will influence the quality of mains water.

We emphasize that mains water continues to be safe to consume and use in the complete territory where PANNON-VÍZ operates. We should continue to be proud to claim one of the most excellent water bases in Europe and we will use every means to protect it.

László Tőke, Chairman-CEO
Pannon-Víz. Zrt. Győr

www.pannon-viz.hu

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