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Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. WaterWalks aims to raise awareness of the rapidly changing water environment of the world we live in. We invite everyone to join us in creating a visual map of our rivers and waterways.

With the WaterWalks app and website you can share your own personal connection to the water: from unique birds and plants to found objects and personal stories. By walking along the river with this app, you become part of the larger WaterWalks project, initiated by Foundation LUDWIG as a global water monitoring project to raise awareness about the rapidly changing water environment.

Through the app you can share stories, record sounds, take photos, make videos and share notes. All posts are geo-localised and made visible on the map in the WaterWalks app and on the website waterwalks.nl. You can add tags and descriptions to your media. These make it possible to filter the content on the map, based on location, tags and mediatype. This way, you can also discover what other people have contributed and explore new routes.

Why WaterWalks:
The purpose of this app is to create a living open database of the state and future of our waterways together. It wants to contribute to the mapping and research of the rivers of the world by actively involving individual walkers, artists, ecologists, school children, art historians, urban planners etc.

For whom is WaterWalks:
Anyone who enjoys walking can become part of this global water monitoring project.

Using the WaterWalks app is completely free of charge. The app does not offer paid content or services. The app is created for individual users. This app is not meant for use in one company or client companies. Individual users of WaterWalks can play online the app for free from the App Store, create a personal account, and start walking and sharing their stories of the rivers.

WaterWalks was initiated in the Netherlands in 2019 with a clear international ambition.
The app is distributed worldwide. In Europe we currently also organise walking events and actively engage ambassadors to present and promote the app. The next WaterWalks event will take place on June 4th and 5th 2021 along the IJmeer, near Amsterdam, the Netherland. The entire weekend, people are invited to walk with us and share their personal connection to the water through the WaterWalks app. Other WaterWalks events are being planned in the near future.

Join us for this ambitious project, wherever you are!
Questions, thoughts or feedback? We'd love to hear what you think about WaterWalks. Please feel free to get in touch via [email protected]