Caption

Dinslaken, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, The Emscher has been completely wastewater-free since January 2022 following the construction of a parallel sewer. The river was previously an open, above-ground wastewater sewer, combined sewer with surface water and wastewater, Europe

Date

May 25, 2022

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Rupert Oberhäuser

Reference

BRK25C90_135

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

128,1Mb (10,2Mb) / 27,3in x 18,2in / 8192 x 5464 (300dpi)

Keywords

parallel deserted no one No People nobody uninhabited empty modification modifications alteration conversion construction constructions Construction site clear clean tree trees vegetation vegetations water waters waterfront dike dikes dyke embankment embankments dykes river rivers waters water body body of water ecological conservation nature protection ecological conservation environment protection environment protection environmental protection environmental conservation environment environment sunlight sunshine sunshine sun lights 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 Europe Europe's open opened hydraulic engineering hydraulic engineering riverbed riverbeds river bed river bank river banks shore shores watershore water shore watershores banks of waterfront rural waterway waterways canal canals water canal water canals channel water treatment water purification water treatments landscape landscapes scenery sceneries landscape photograph countryside landscape shot landscape photo ecofriendly eco-friendly environmentally friendly Environmental friendly 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 water protection water protection suburb outskirts contamination contaminations pollution polluting preparation preparations Germany German Federal Republic Republic of Germany FRG BRD water management water management sewerage sewerages sewerage system sewer economy economies Business seminatural semi-natural close to nature natural near-natural renaturated renaturalised overground above-ground travel photography countryside in the country Dinslaken contaminated dirty polluted Emscher course of a river river course course of the river natural environment natural surrounding Central Europe Middle Europe Emscher sewer state sector Public services Services of general interest Wastewater treatment Sewer Wast water channel Wast water Dirty water Wastewater River system Water landscape Waterscape Surface water wastewater-free Emscher conversion Sewer