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Scheldt River (l’Escaut)
L’Escaut sources in Gouy (North France) at 100 meters above sea level, flows as Schelde through Ghent (West Belgium) and Antwerp, meanders as Western Scheldt (Southwest of the Netherlands) into the North Sea. In 350 km, the river widens to 65 meters (Ghent), 450 meters (Antwerp), 5.000 meters (Flushing). The yearly discharge of fresh water…
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Tagliamento
Tagliamento is the name of a river in the far Northeast of Italy, in the region closest to Slovenia and Austria. Its name means “river with a lot of linden trees along its banks.” The river has its source in the Dolomite mountains and flows to the Adriatic Sea, covering a distance of 178km. Tagliamento…
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Antarctica
Antarctic Rights is a pioneering global initiative dedicated to securing legal recognition and protection for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean as entities with inherent rights. Founded on the principles of Earth Jurisprudence and the Rights of Nature, Antarctic Rights advocates for a transformative approach to the governance of this unique region—one that places the needs…
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Deep Sea
A Seat for the Sea is a transmedia project through which Greet Brauwers and Raf Custers want to address the exploitation of the sea in this ‘Ocean Decade’. We explore how to grasp this complex subject and translate it into imagination. How do you arouse interest in something that is invisible and intangible, yet has…
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Laguna de la Janda
Once spanning over 7,000 hectares, La Janda was the largest inland wetland in the Iberian Peninsula and the southernmost marsh complex in Europe. Nestled in the province of Cádiz, Andalucía, it formed a seasonal mosaic of shallow lagoons and lush marshes, sustained by the rivers Barbate, Celemín, and Almodóvar. This vibrant ecosystem served as a…
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Robert MacFarlane opens Confluence 2025 in Amsterdam
The third edition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies will take place in the Netherlands, from 21 – 24 September 2025. Famous author Robert Macfarlane will open the Confluence, Sunday afternoon September 21 2025 in De Balie Amsterdam, with a talk about his new book Is A River Alive? Whether it’s the Amazon or…
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Big succes for Vistula River & Polish Rivers Sisters: no new dam!
The River Sisters are one of the first members of our Confluence of European Water Bodies. Together with many NGO’s, united in the Save The Rivers Coalition, they have been campaigning for over zeven years to protect Vistula, the queen of Polish rivers. Its middle section is an example of a perfectly preserved, unique landscape…
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Call for contributions to a special issue / anthology
Water Bodies of Europe – flows, obstacles, convergences and ways forwards We invite all water bodies to contribute to a special issue / anthology about Rights of Nature and water representation in Europe. All contributions in the form of research articles, essays, artworks, opinion pieces, book reviews from the perspectives of law, academia, artistic, activism are welcome!…
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New Chapter Diplomatic Suitcase in Lisbon
From April 2 2025, the Diplomatic Suitcase will be exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in Lisbon as part of the exhibition Interspecies. The Diplomatic Suitcase is the travelling exhibition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies, our European community with now over 25 grass roots activists, artists & academics representing Europes glaciers, seas, lakes, lagunes and rivers.…
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Monthly online water bodies meeting
Every third Thursday of the month at 7.30 pm, our water bodies network comes together to exchange plans and ideas. Find bellow the schedule. Should you be interested to join one of these sessions to meet the network, please send an email to: info@ambassadevandenoordzee.nl to receive the agenda + Zoomlink. Thursday 20 March 7:30pm Thursday…
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Diplomatic Suitcase at the Interspecies exhibition Lisbon
From April 2 2025, the Diplomatic Suitcase will be exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in Lisbon as part of the exhibition Interspecies. The Diplomatic Suitcase is the travelling exhibition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies, our European community with now over 25 grass roots activists, artists & academics representing Europes glaciers, seas, lakes, lagunes and rivers.…
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Diplomatic Suitcase exhibition at Mediamatic
After Murcia, Venice, Italy, Berlin and Lisbon, the Diplomatic Suitcase is now travelling to Amsterdam! The Diplomatic Suitcase is the multimedia, portable exhibition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies. From 19 September – 10 October 2025 the exhibition will be presented and activated at Mediamatic art center in Amsterdam. Cultural water diplomacy The Diplomatic…
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Robert Macfarlane opens Confluence in Amsterdam
The third edition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies will take place in the Netherlands, from 21 – 24 September 2025. Famous author Robert Macfarlane will open the Confluence, Sunday afternoon September 21 2025 in De Balie Amsterdam, with a talk about his new book Is A River Alive? Whether it’s the Amazon or…
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Water Bodies Future Thinking Session at Museum Kranenburgh
Collective futures During this session, the Confluence will take a key next step towards a collective vision for the future of the network, its joint activities and goals. While the previous two Confluences (Mar Menor 2023 and Venice Lagoon 2024) focused on getting to know each other’s waters and initiatives, today we will move our…
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Screening The Coriolis Effect at Cinebergen
September 23 2025 at 8 pm, Theater Cinebergen will organize a special screening of the film The Coriolis Effect, a poetic feature documentary about our world spinning out of control. The film is set in Cape Verde: the place where hurricanes are born. With a Q&A with Zindoc, the directors of the film I am the River the River…
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Can the Piave still Murmur?
An assembly in Ocean Space for an in-depth discussion and a series of artistic elements centered on the case of the Grave di Ciano, an important area of the Piave river, protected by the Natura 2000 project but threatened by a potentially ecologically damaging climate adaptation project.
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Programme Confluence of European Water Bodies 2024
From 3 to 6 October 2024, the second edition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies will take place, an initiative of the Embassy of the North Sea, TBA21–Academy, and representatives of the ILP Mar Menor. After a successful first conference in 2023 on the shores of the Mar Menor, the first ecosystem in Europe…
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The Waterbodies orchestra
The Water Bodies Orchestra This digital design project is a musical and embodied way to unlock the digital sound archive of European waters. Through interactive group experiences, the human and non-human voices of the water bodies will come together in a performative moment. The Water Bodies Orchestra will be rehearsed and performed for the first…
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Diplomatic suitcase
Diplomatic suitcase Water is vital for all life on Earth, yet the voices of water are rarely heard in political decision-making. Born out of growing water challenges and demands for water democracy worldwide, the Confluence of European Water Bodies sprang from a collective pursuit of a deeper understanding of the ‘Rights of Nature’ in Europe.…
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Representatives
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Li An Phoa
Li An Phoa (1980) is the founder of the Drinkable Rivers movement. Over the past ten years, she has walked 21,000 kilometres along rivers; the Meuse river walk was the subject of the documentary Long Walk for Drinkable Rivers. She is the author of the book ‘Drinkable Rivers: How the River Becomes My Teacher’.
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Ingrid de Vries
Ingrid de Vries (1972) worked for a chemical company at the decision support and control department, after graduating at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). In between calculating cost prices, she launched a waste management project. She often found herself at the wastewater treatment plant, talking with the operator about how the bacteria were “eating” the chemical…
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Pieter Ippel
Pieter Ippel (1953) was a professor of law at Utrecht University and in Middelburg (Zeeland). He also worked at several other universities and was a government lawyer in The Hague. He is the author of a book about the growth of environmental and health law from the 1970s onward.
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Nico Landsman
Nico Landsman (1955) formerly worked for the Province of Zeeland in water management and climate adaptation. He is inspired by Western Scheldt itself, philosophy, Western academic knowledge, Indigenous wisdom, and generations yet to be born. He is connected to the Earth Trusteeship Initiative, which triggered him to start Rights of the de Scheldt as a…
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Giulia Della Marina
Giulia Della Marina, 62, is a social anthropologist who has been working in various countries in South America and Italy, fostering the self-determination of Indigenous peoples’ groups and organizations. She has also served for several years in Bosnia and Herzegovina within different international organizations dealing with mediation, peace-building, and the democratisation process in the immediate…
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