22 April – 23 May 2025

• 30 days
• 360 kilometers
• Daily water quality measurements
• Open invitation to join
• Some tributaries will be walked as well

River walk details will follow.

18 Sep – 11 Oct 2024

• 3 weeks along Danube in Romania
• week 1 in the Danube Delta; week 2 at the confluence with Jiu River; week 3 near Drobeta Turnu Severin (Serbian border)
• Daily citizen science experiential education
• Open invitation to join the walk

Part of the Danube4All project, this river walk stimulates water stewardship, collects input for an action guide and to creates a base for continued river walks along the entire Danube replicated by local partners in 2025 and 2026.

• 14 days
• 165 kilometers
• Daily water quality measurements
• Open invitation to join

From 26 May until 8 June we will walk with Li An Phoa from the source of the Berkel in the ‘Baumberge’ near Billerbeck (Germany) to the mouth of the river in the river Ijssel in Zutphen (The Netherlands) to develop a shared vision towards a drinkable Berkel. We invite every one to join us.

17 Sep – 17 Oct 2023

• 30 days
• 400 kilometers
• Daily water quality measurements
• Open invitation to join

From 17 September until 17 October Li An & Maarten will walk from the source of the Thames in the Cotswolds to the mouth of the river in the North Sea to share their vision of drinkable rivers. We invite every one to join us and take a first step towards a drinkable Thames.

• 15 days
• 170 kilometers
• Open invitation to join

Li An Phoa, founder of Drinkable Rivers, wants our rivers to become so healthy that we can drink from them again. That’s why she will walk from 8 to 23 June from the source of the Vechte in Germany to the source in Zwolle, the Netherlands – 170 kilometres in total!

18-23 April 2023

• 6 days
• 125 kilometers
• Open invitation to join

Youth for Drinkable Rivers will walk in the footsteps of Li An Phoa along the river Dommel. We will walk from the source in Peer, Belgium to the confluence with the Meuse in Den Bosch.

17-18 March 2023

• 2 days
• 15 kilometers
• Film screening ‘Drinkable Meuse’ (open to public, in Dutch)

During this river walk Li An and water entrepreneur Jacob Bossaer will be in conversation with each other, meeting facilitated by Transition Arena Water. They act from different perspectives: the integral perspective and approach of Li An and the entrepreneurial approach by Jacob. Where is our shared base? Along the way they will meet the (people of the) river Kleine Nete.

• 12 days
• 127 kilometers
• 12 measurements with children and other locals

7-18 June Li An and Maarten will walk the entire river IJssel, a river that is part of the Rhine watershed, as part of a joined ambition to strive for a drinkable IJssel in thirty years. With a manifest and a core team of organisations who share this dream, we invite all other humans of the IJssel to make their steps in the direction of a drinkable IJssel. 

• 1 day 30kms
• 1 measurement
• 12 co-walkers

Together with StrandLab Almere we explored the lake IJmeer. Visualised by the Waterwalks app from LUDWIG. During the 30-km day walk, local people and professionals joined parts of the walk: Mark Banga (harbour master Marina Muiderzand and tree expert), Kevin van Drumpt (water mayor Almere), Jochgem van Dijk (Stad & Natuur), Thijn Westermann (Groen Muiderberg), Maarten Ouboter (Waterschap Amstel, Gooi en Vecht en Waternet), Herman Zonderland (stedenbouwkundige Gemeente Amsterdam), Annette van Driel (UrbanCampsite IJburg), and Suzan Huppes (Lolaland) and six locals like Robert Borghuis and Quirine Winkler (water programme maker) met with Jaap Porsius (havenmeester Durgerdam), Kadir van Lohuizen (fotograaf). The active locals from IJburg have become a new Drinkable Rivers citizen science hub.

• 2 days
• 35 kilometres
• 4 measurements with children and locals
• 20 co-walkers

In Autumn 2019, Li An walked the river Amstel. Besides the friends and locals that joined part of the walk, she walked together with Kate Moore and Quirine Winkler for 35km, from the start at the sluice in Nieuwveen to Muntplein in the city center of Amsterdam. The whole walk was visualised by an app initiated by art collective LUDWIG in collaboration with Drinkable Rivers.

• 60 days
• 1061 kilometers
• 60 measurements with children and locals
• 500 co-walkers

Li An Phoa walked the Meuse from source-to-sea, crossing three countries: France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Every night she was hosted by local people. In total more than two hundred people, ‘Meuse Angels’, supported this walk.