Ich Bin Ein Berlin Swimmer!

The Flussbad Berlin (“river pool”) project is many years in the making and aims to turn an old, more or less unused, dirty city canal into a massive, 840-meter long ‘natural’ pool, complete with public locker room facilities, floating piers, and even competitive swimming lanes. That makes it roughly 16 Olympic-sized swimming pools in length, but without all the red eyes, dry skin, and expense that comes with chlorine and other chemically-based water treatments. And now, due to recent national and local funding amounting to 4 million Euro and an increase in media attention (see articles in The New York Times and Newsweek), the Flussbad is closer than ever to becoming a reality on the Spree River in downtown Berlin.

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