Since the TenneSwim ended on September 29th, the “swimming professor” Andreas Fath and his graduate student Juri Jander have been busy analyzing their numerous water quality samples. The TenneSwim team is particularly interested in how much plastic is transported by the river. The challenge in answering this question lies in Read more…
“Since outdoor-pools opened in mid-May, I’ve swum 125 miles” explains Andreas Fath when asked about his training workload. “That’s about the same distance I swam to prepare for swimming the Rhine in 2014.” Andreas plans to train every day before he leaves for the United States later this month. “But Read more…
Whereas water on this planet may seem abundant, most is not immediately accessible for human use: In 1993, hydrologist Igor Shiklomanov famously estimated that of all water on earth – representing a volume of circa 1.386 billion km3 – merely 2.5% is freshwater. Let’s take that to a more comprehensible Read more…