Caption

Bottrop-Gladbeck, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Renaturalised Boye, the tributary of the Emscher, was transformed into a near-natural watercourse, flood protection and biodiversity through newly designed floodplains. Following the construction of a parallel sewer, the Boye is now free of wastewater, is part of the Emscher river system and thus part of the Emscher conversion, was previously an open, above-ground wastewater sewer, combined sewer with surface water and wastewater, Europe

Date

Sep 26, 2023

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Caro / Oberhaeuser

Reference

BRK25C92_247

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NA

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No

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Rights managed

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59,8Mb (6,7Mb) / 17,6in x 13,2in / 5280 x 3956 (300dpi)

Keywords

parallel deserted no one No People nobody uninhabited empty new newly modification modifications alteration conversion construction constructions Construction site building buildings structure construction constructions factory factories plant plants Factory plant factory premises factory premises plant site industrial plant industrial plants industrial facilities industry industries investment investments money money capital market financial market capital markets tree trees vegetation vegetations water waters waterfront creek creeks brook brooks stream little River small river river rivers wetland wetlands wet land wetland biotope waters water body body of water climate climates 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 Europe Europe's green factory site factory sites climate protection climate control climate protection open opened climate change climate change natural original originally riverbed riverbeds river bed river bank river banks shore shores watershore water shore watershores banks of waterfront riverbank river bank riverbanks riverside design designed remodeled rural waterway waterways canal canals water canal water canals channel global world-wide worldwide industrial commercial area commercial areas industrial estate ecofriendly eco-friendly environmentally friendly Environmental friendly infrastructure infrastructures european sewage effluent wastewater sewages Waste water effluents renaturation renaturation industrial area industrial areas industrial zone industrial zones Industrial district burden burdens stress capitalism River landscape riverine landscape riverine landscapes River landscapes river scenery river sceneries Riverscape River view civil engineering civil engineering finance finances contamination contaminations pollution polluting invest investing invests 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 industrial building industrial buildings seminatural semi-natural close to nature natural near-natural landscape conservation landscape preservation landscape protection renaturated renaturalised overground above-ground Gladbeck Bottrop countryside in the country contaminated dirty polluted Emscher course of a stream stream course of course of a river river course course of the river naturel environment wetland landscape meadow landscape Central Europe Middle Europe climate crisis meadow landscape grassland landscape Industry landscape Industrial landscape Sewer Wast water channel Wast water Dirty water Wastewater Biodiversity species diversity Factory building flood plain wetland floodplain floodplains Biodiversity River system Canal construction Sewer construction Tributary Tributaries Surface water Heating warming wastewater-free Emscher conversion Sewer River renaturalisation