Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

I think the key point is the emptying. Or rather – what does "regularly" mean in this context? How does it behave during late autumn and winter, when it rains enough or you don't water anymore? Doesn't the water go bad by then? You probably can only get a cistern completely empty with great effort regularly?

Unfortunately, I can't answer that in detail, especially regarding autumn/winter. I don't know anyone whose cistern has gone bad. Completely empty here doesn't mean pumping it out to the last drop. If you still have 100 liters inside and it rains 2 cubic meters, then it is also very well diluted. Every few years, you should also thoroughly flush the cistern once in summer and scoop out the sludge at the bottom.

How does it behave over late autumn and winter, when it rains enough or you no longer water?

We have had concrete cisterns for decades, in autumn they are pumped empty until nothing more comes (flushing the wastewater pipe), then a garden scoop of Ammovit is added and the rain fills the cistern again. Nothing has ever gone bad there.

But something needs to be said here after I have read all the posts:

In theory, one could actually say that it is unfair if someone is born disabled, and you could certainly list countless other things that are also unfair. However, no one can do anything about where and how they were born. No one is forced to reproduce, and if people in Africa decide to do so, even though they are aware of their situation, then it is their own fault and not evil Europe’s! (I would also not recommend people receiving citizen's income to bring children into the world).

And honestly: If you all argue like that, I could also say that it’s unfair that you all have a house and I and others do not. But I don’t do that, because you are not responsible for that. That is absurd.

And you as homeowners belong to the privileged yourselves, yet you demand that other people redistribute their wealth. That makes no sense to me!

I am really getting chills down my spine right now. I thought with a certain generation opinions like these would simply die out, but having to read this from a young woman around 30 really makes me doubt our education system.

And do you really believe that the world and the country we live in are not like that themselves? There is also poverty in this country, but instead of first fighting it, even more poverty migrants are being brought into the country.

For you, there are only 2 extremes: Either you are for poverty migration (and in your eyes that makes you "good"), or you are against it (then you are a very bad social Darwinist). But it never occurs to you that there is no black and white. You can also live like in Switzerland, where people are not so heavily burdened and the whole topic is viewed more differentiated, because they have a natural sense of what is a tolerable level of immigration and when it becomes too much. We are not forced to pursue this policy!

The entire discussion is characterized by extremes. However, it does not seem to be anyone's actual position, yet they accuse each other of extreme ideas.

It is all a question of a healthy balance. This is open to debate.

No one is forced to reproduce, and if people in Africa decide to do so, even though they are aware of their situation, then they have only themselves to blame

But it is about the fact that the children are not to blame if their parents conceive them. Not about what the parents could avoid. You advocate for nothing other than ignoring complete inequality at the start of the race - and call that fair.

But the point is that the children are not to blame if their parents conceive them. Not about what the parents could have avoided.

You advocate for nothing other than ignoring complete inequality at the start of the race - and you call that fair.

And what does it have to do with us if Africans bring a child into the world that they cannot feed?
It is also not our fault if people cross the sea and then capsize with the boat.
We are our own country and our own nation!
I am really shocked by your sense of self.
You know what? You can certainly have your opinion, but please take all these people into your home, and at your own expense!