Environmental Protection

Potsdam looks back on a long and successful tradition of land use management. A good half of Potsdam’s urban area is subject to environmental protection.

Due to the transformation of the landscape during the Ice Age, the Potsdam region contains a large number of bodies of water. The backbone of Potsdam’s water system consists of the river Havel with its so-called Havel lakes and the river Nuthe as its main waterways.

In order to achieve good groundwater protection there are designated protected areas for all of the drainage basins in the waterworks.