Caption

Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Renaturalised Boye, the tributary of the Emscher, was transformed into a near-natural watercourse, flood protection through newly designed flooding areas, the Boye is now free of wastewater after the construction of a parallel sewer, is part of the Emscher river system and thus part of the Emscher conversion, was previously an open, above-ground wastewater channel, mixed water channel with surface water and wastewater

Date

Jul 26, 2021

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Rupert Oberhäuser

Reference

BRK25C76_133

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NA

Property release

No

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Rights managed

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128,1Mb (9,4Mb) / 27,3in x 18,2in / 8192 x 5464 (300dpi)

Keywords

parallel deserted no one No People nobody uninhabited empty new newly modification modifications alteration conversion construction constructions Construction site flood floods flooding high water water flood floodwater flood floods blossom blossoms bloom blooms flower flowers vegetation vegetations water waters waterfront river rivers wetland wetlands wet land wetland biotope waters water body body of water climate climates flower meadow flower meadows flowering meadow wild meadow meadow meadows Grass field lawn field biotope biotopes ecological conservation nature protection ecological conservation environment protection environment protection environmental protection environmental conservation global warming global warming season seasons nature open air Ruhr district Ruhr area Ruhr Ruhrgebiet Ruhr region North Rhine-Westphalia NRW Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia North-Rhine Westphalia German flora flora plant life colorful colourful variegated multicoloured multi-coloured multi-colored different coloured Colourfully coloured colorfully colored color Many-colored Europe Europe's meadow flower meadow flowers construction work construction works building flowering blooming blooms in flower blossoming blossom flowering climate protection climate control climate protection open opened climate change climate change natural original originally riverbed riverbeds river bed design designed remodeled waterway waterways canal canals water canal water canals channel landscape landscapes scenery sceneries landscape photograph countryside landscape shot landscape photo ecofriendly eco-friendly environmentally friendly Environmental friendly flooded european sewage effluent wastewater sewages Waste water effluents renaturation renaturation burden burdens stress River landscape riverine landscape riverine landscapes River landscapes river scenery river sceneries Riverscape River view contamination contaminations pollution polluting Germany German Federal Republic Republic of Germany FRG BRD sewerage sewerages sewerage system sewer flood control flood control flood protection flood prevention flood water control project projects seminatural semi-natural close to nature near-natural renaturated renaturalised overground above-ground travel photography Bottrop contaminated dirty polluted Emscher course of a river river course course of the river natural environment natural surrounding wetland landscape meadow landscape Central Europe Middle Europe climate crisis meadow landscape grassland landscape Sewer Wast water channel Wast water Dirty water Wastewater flood plain wetland floodplain floodplains River system Tributary Tributaries Surface water wastewater-free Emscher conversion Sewer Infrastructure project Floodplain development