In Vienna this year, numerous organizations, from the Ministry of Life to Via Donau, celebrated Danubeday with a large festival at the Museumsquartier, specially designed for schoolchildren. We took the opportunity to present our extensive renaturation project Life Network Danube.
Our nine Danube power plants in Austria supply as much electricity per year as all households together consume. Their operation is associated with great responsibility: as waste collectors, in the event of floods and for navigation. Added to this is the responsibility for the Danube habitat. With the support of the European Union from the LIFE funding program, the Danube power plants will therefore be retrofitted with fish migration aids in the coming years. In addition, existing ecology projects on the Danube will be networked with each other. In this way, VERBUND is closing many gaps in the chain of individual measures by various Danube riparians.
