Water isn’t just something you give to houseplants: water and the environment

Throughout our ecosystem water plays a complex and important role. But countless important water sources, from the Ganges to the Colorado and the Aral and Chad Sea, are threatened by extensive outtake and pollution, a situation aggrevated by climate change.

In out new water portal you’ll find well-researched theses and exciting solutions in the realm of water and environment:

„It can’t get any worse“, says tropical water expert Dirk Walter, regarding the situation of rivers in India. Nonetheless, he explains in this interview why he is still optimistic.

To protect against fragile ecosystem deterioration, the German NGO BUND is actively working to salvage the Elbe River. Their lobby is strong and has already taken back many hectares of wetlands.

River Regions Management: it sounds professional, and it is. The holistic methods of the Watershed Organisation Trust areexemplary and are increasingly being adopted by other organisations.

Until the skin gets pretty wrinkly: the musician Heinz Ratz swimsup to 20 kilometres per day in the German rivers in order to raise awareness about their quiet deterioration.

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