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  1. The Living Danube Tour stops in Serbia in August
  2. The Living Danube Tour goes around Romania in June
  3. Old-Drava project site launched

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  1. Vote for the coolest animal of a Danube island
  2. Show you care about the Danube, apply for ESFLP
  3. Participate in a regatta to save Europe's Amazon

Did you know

  1. The Danube originates in the town of Donaueschingen which is in the Black Forest of Germany at the confluence of the rivers Brigach and Breg.
  2. 100 fish species live in the Danube.
  3. The Danube provides drinking water for 20 million people.

Did you know ...

  • The Danube flows through four European capital cities - Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade.

  • Wetlands not only supply water, but they cleanse it too. When water enters a wetland, it filters out impurities before allowing the water to leave.

  • By absorbing water during the wet season and gradually releasing it during the dry season, wetlands refill aquifers and other drinking water supplies.

  • Species loss in freshwater ecosystems is faster than anywhere else on Earth. There is a more than 50% decline in freshwater species populations over the past 30 years.

  • Globally, the agricultural sector consumes about 70% of the planet's accessible freshwater – more than twice that of industry (23%), and dwarfing municipal use (8%).

  • Today only a third of the world’s 177 large rivers (1,000 km and longer) remain free-flowing, unimpeded by dams or other barriers.

  • The global average water footprint is about 3,400 litres per person per day with the USA and Japan at about double this rate.

  • The deepest waters of the Black Sea extend to depths of well over two kilometers.

  • The Black Sea is almost completely cut off from the world's other seas and oceans.

  • The Danube is the largest tributary to the Black Sea.

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