Switzerland, a country with beautiful natural scenery and a very attractive tourist destination, has announced cash prizes.
By the way, the Swiss government has taken many excellent measures to protect people from environmental pollution and provide them with a safe natural environment.
but surprisingly, to make the water of the lakes clean and transparent, they have removed the munitions and weapons that have been in the water for years. The decision has been made.
For this difficult task, the government is seeking help from the public for which cash prizes have been kept.
The Swiss Federal Department of Defense Procurement (Armasuisse) is offering 50,000 Swiss francs ($57,800) to the three best ideas on how to get old weapons out of the country’s lakes.
Under this project, about 12,000 tons of old weapons are to be removed from the country’s lakes, including Lake Thun, Lake Brienz and Lake Lucer.
The department wants to engage academia and industry to consider how environmentally friendly and safe deep lake munitions recovery can be.
It is believed that the operation to remove the munitions dumped between 1918 and 1964 could cost the government billions of francs.
Over the decades following World War I, the Swiss military dumped around 12,000 tons of ammunition into Swiss lakes.
Because of Switzerland’s limited space and densely populated areas, lakes were considered a “safe” way to dispose of surplus and defective ammunition stocks.