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Lippeverband

The Lippeverband is a public German water board (“Wasserwirtschaftsverband”) located in Dortmund ( North Rhine-Westphalia/ Germany) and responsible for 3.280 km² of the Lippe catchment from Lippborg down to the river Rhine with 1.4 Mio. citizens. The main tasks are wastewater discharge and treatment, flood protection, groundwater management, settlement of claims caused by hard coal mining, river restoration and protection of ecosystems.