Patron jumps into the cold Danube water

Groups on the Danube are taking part for the first time. Andreas Fath, the chemistry professor at Furtwangen University, swam the Danube this summer – from Ulm to the Black Sea. On these 2700 kilometers, he and his team took every opportunity to promote the 1st DonauCleanUp. At the start in Ulm, the Baden-Württemberg Minister for the Environment, Thekla Walker, also jumped in (at the time) at the deep end. Like her colleagues in Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse and her colleagues in North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria, she has taken over the patronage of our project, each for her federal state.