It is 32 degrees in Basel. On the bridge people are eating ice cream, while below it swimmers keep surfacing as they drift along in the Rhine. In Basel you are allowed to swim in the river, despite international freight shipping and other leisure activities.
“Part of the river in the city centre is marked out with buoys,” Tim Edler tells Euronews. Swimmers, leisure users and shipping all share the same stretch of water here. Edler is co-founder of Flussbad Berlin, an association that wants to make the Spree in Berlin safe for swimming. He was recently in Basel for the Swimmable Cities European Forum . The aim of this network is to make urban…
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