Living Waters was founded to stop polluting our waters and strengthen aquatic ecosystems. With innovative and inspiring measures, we want to achieve a change in awareness of water as a basis for life.
What makes us unique as a non-profit organization: We make water rescue very concrete, as we develop products and environmental solutions together with partners that bring visible and sustainable environmental benefits to local communities.
We support all measures with effective, broadly effective communication that raises awareness and triggers a change in behavior.
With campaigns for families, school classes and companies, we create awareness of how important clean water is for all of us and how each individual can contribute to it.
Our water purification products — plant islands, trash traps, multifloat — are made from plastic waste and recycled materials and are recyclable. The recycling cycle is closed.
The roots of plants filter toxins from the water and provide fish with a habitat. Solar modules swirl vital oxygen into the water and thus prevent algae growth.
Rolf Gast had the idea for Living Waters. He has been closely associated with Marina Düsseldorf for almost 50 years. Even living on water and from water sports, he became increasingly aware of how threatened the ecological balance of rivers and oceans was.
Together with partners in various countries, he began to develop practicable measures and products to secure biological diversity, make ports climate-resilient and innovatively solve the impending water crisis. He is an expert in the construction of floating facilities and is experienced in the development of technical and nature-based environmental protection measures.
