„Mit Künstlicher Intelligenz gegen Nitrate“ - ein Forschungsprojekt des Bundesumweltministeriums hilft der kommunalen Trinkwasserversorgung - Campus-Report am 27.10.2020

Nitrate in groundwater is a problem in Germany. The massive use of fertilizers in agriculture but also factory farming lead to the permissible limit values ​​being regularly exceeded. Only the small island state of Malta has a comparably high burden in the EU. That weighs heavily, because 70% of the drinking water in this country is obtained from groundwater. And nitrate can only be removed through expensive filtering. A research project funded by the Federal Environment Ministry now wants to use artificial intelligence to combat nitrates in groundwater. The necessary self-learning computer programs are trained at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.