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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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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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Pek
The Pek (Serbian Cyrillic: Пек) is a relatively short river in eastern Serbia. It is a 129 km long right tributary of the Danube, [1] flowing through the regions of Homolje, Zvižd and Braničevo. The river got a moniker Golden Pek for being one of the most gold-bearing rivers in Europe, with some of its tributaries bearing even more...
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Floris van Hees
Floris van Hees has a passion for justice, human rights, and environmental protection. He completed a law degree at Maastricht University and subsequently obtained a Master’s in Human Rights and Democratization at the Global Campus of Human Rights. After a career as a lawyer at an international law firm in Amsterdam, he founded his own…
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Torsten Schäfer
Torsten Schäfer is a professor of journalism at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, an environmental journalist, and a wilderness pedagogist. His work focuses on climate journalism, storytelling, and nature writing. Torsten was editor at GEO magazine and the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle. He took training in survival education (one year) and river relations (Schumacher College). He…
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Léa Corbière
Léa Corbière grew up on the shores of Mediterranean Sea in the south of France. She has a master’s degree in transdisciplinary political science on risk management and adaptation to climate change and a master’s specialising in environmental law from the universities of Paris: Panthéon-Sorbonne and Panthéon-Assas. She works on pesticide risk regulation and, more…
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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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Loisach
The Loisach river originates in the Zugspitze region of Tyrol and flows through alpine landscapes from Austria to Bavaria, where it joins the Isar near Wolfratshausen. The river’s course was characterised by gravel banks, floodplains, and a rich variety of flora and fauna. However, straightening, canalisation, soil sealing, groundwater extraction and the consequences of the…
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Anna Chmiel
Anna Chmiel is a painter, multimedia artist, and key member of the Rivers Sisters collective from 2019. She seamlessly combines art with activism for nature, especially rivers.
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Teresa Vicente Giménez
Teresa Vicente Giménez is Professor of Philosophy of Law. She is Deputy Director of the Center for Cooperation and Development Studies (CECODE) at the Universidad de Murcia.
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Fang-Jui Chang
Fang is a Responsible Innovation Lead and Strategic Designer at Dark Matter Labs, and co-leads the Radicle Civics portfolio, primarily focused on societal, environmental, and economic structural transitions and new civics. Dark Matter Labs is a not-for-profit working for a future of mutual thriving by focusing on the ‘dark matter’ (monetary, economic, governance, regulatory and policy systems)…
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Siobhán McDonald
Siobhán McDonald’s practice draws attention to contemporary topics dealing with air, breath and atmospheric phenomena, weaving scientific knowledge into her art in a poetic and thoughtful manner. Born in New York and living and and working in Dublin, Siobhán works with natural materials, withdrawing them from their cycles of generation, growth and decay. This process gives form to…
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Robert Rient
Robert Rient initiated the recognition of the Odra River as a legal person and established the Odra Tribe. He is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Odra Person Foundation, a Member of the International Observatory for the Rights of Nature, Save the Rivers Coalition, and Literary Union Association. He also acts as…
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Rhine
The Rhine River, one of Europe’s longest and most significant waterways, spans over 1,230 kilometers from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea. Flowing through six countries—Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, France, and the Netherlands—it has shaped European history, culture, and economies for centuries. Its delta, shared with the Meuse and Scheldt rivers in the Netherlands,…
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Maria Lucia Cruz Correia
Lucia is a water keeper, artist and the initiator of the Natural Contract Lab group. Since 2009, her work has reacted to the environmental crises of our times, weaving temporary and collaborative processes that are a living organism that keeps growing in kinship with rivers, resilient plants, trees and others.
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Anja Binkofski
Anja Binkofski is a Doctoral Candidate at the German Maritime Museum – Leibniz Institute for Maritime History in Bremerhaven, Germany. She studied Transcultural Studies (M.A.) at the University of Bremen, where she found her passion for Maritime Anthropology. This resulted in her Thesis: “Living with(out) the North Sea – Future Planning on the Halligen in the Age…
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Mtkvari
A water body flowing from the Caucasus before mingling with the Caspian Sea—known in human tongues as Mtkvari, Kura, Cyrus—was the living pulse of Georgia, circulating in the bodies of its dwellers as they swam, drank, and marked their deepest rituals at its edge. Known for its capricious nature: changing rapids, fluctuating shallows, and periodic…
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Agata Julia Foksa-Biegaj
Agata Julia Foksa-Biegaj is a lawyer specializing in international law and human rights, a PhD researcher, and a member of the Osoba Odra Foundation. Her work explores ecological justice, systemic transformation, and the rights of nature, bridging legal, philosophical, and spiritual perspectives.
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Vinny Jones
Vinny's practice of sensory scenography is based on the recognition that it is through the whole sensing body that we perceive, experience, and are connected in the world.
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Modau
The Modau River is an average German river in the lower mountain area of Odenwald south of Frankfurt, she is 44 kilometres long and flows into the Rhein River at Stockstadt. Her sister is called Gersprenz. They were both born on the mountain of Neunkirchner Höhe (605 m), and the sources are situated only one…
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Ana Džakić
Ana Džakić is born in 1985 in Belgrade. She graduated from the Secondary School of Architecture and is currently employed full-time in the energy sector. A mother of two, she has been a long-time environmental activist and is the legal representative of the NGO White Heron 1165 – Bela Čaplja 1165 from Belgrade. She is…
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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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Letizia Artioli
Letizia Artioli is an architect and researcher based between Venice and Den Haag, always below sea level. She is currently working on Data Turbulences, Flooding Voids, and Weathering Spaces. Her work focuses on investigating the relationship between human beings and environmental data as a matter for research and creation, entangling archives of dichotomies between immaterial…
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Simon Wynen
Simon Wynen is a wilderness educator and co-founder of the Loisachbündnis. He was born in 1999 and lives not far from the Loisach and the Murnauer Moos. From a young age, he has spent a great deal of time in nature, learning to live simply. As a wilderness educator and nature mentor, he strives to…
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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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Watch the short film of Confluence #3!
The third annual Confluence of European Water Bodies took our journey to Amsterdam and Bergen aan Zee. Taking place from 21 – 24 September 2025 and hosted by the Embassy of the North Sea, the 2025 Confluence brought together water bodies from all across Europe and beyond to gather, think, create, and strategize in workshops,…
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Odra
Actions of the Odra Tribe The greatest ecological disaster of contemporary Europe (as the European Parliament called it) took place in 2022, when 65 million mussels, 147 million snails, and 82 to 122 million fish died. The estimated weight of the dead is 1,650 tons. In response to this, the Odra tribe was formed. We…
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Aleksandra Velimanović
Aleksandra Velimanović, master in the field of integrated management of natural resources, has been in the civil sector for 25 years, and since 2006 one of the founders and members of the citizens’ association “NIMBUS” from Loznica.
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Mar Menor
The Mar Menor is a 135 km2 coastal lagoon in the southeastern region of Murcia in Spain. It is the largest saltwater lagoon in Europe, separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a strip of land called La Manga del Mar Menor. The Mar Menor is in a severe state of eutrophication due to the nutrients it receives, mainly from...
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Drina
The Drina river basin covers an area of 19,680 km² and extends over the territory of the three largest coastal countries: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. Pristine ecosystems, wetlands and alluvial forests are among the most important habitats in the Drina basin. They represent an important factor for habitat diversity and provide conditions and shelter for many species, and...