bottled water is sold out?

yeah that's weird timing, the cashier might've been confused or heard wrong. there's no water shortage in berlin, the tap water here is great anyway. maybe they meant the plastic bottle deposit system is changing or something, but i've seen plenty of water at rewe on kantstraße today. you can just drink leitungswasser for free, it's perfectly safe and honestly tastes fine

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Check the local news for Berlin-Brandenburg, there was a notice about higher nitrate levels in some groundwater zones after the heavy rains last month. Not a full ban or anything, but the utility company suggested sensitive groups use bottled water for a few weeks. That probably triggered the panic buying. If you just need something to drink, the tap is still fine for most people, but if you want to stock up without the crowds, try the Edeka on Wilmersdorfer Straße around 8pm when they restock.

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Honestly I think it's just a weird coincidence with the timing of that nitrate advisory, but it's not like the tap water is undrinkable or anything. If you really want bottled without the hassle, try the little Netto on Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße, they had plenty of still water yesterday when I grabbed some.

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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