Alpenquellen.com

Alpenquellen.com - The idea

The Alps are the water castle of Europe. There is not any other region with such an amount of water sources than the Alps. Therefore, we made it our assignment to realise an interactive information system especially for Alpine sources.

The [ LBV Landesbund für Vogelschutz ] was able to get [ Swiss Re ] as donator until end of 2005 for this demanding task, whose main interest in environmental protection is water.

In our project, we are focussing on water sources from the most various points of view, as for example a scientific, cultural, artistic or also mythic point of view. This way, we intend to enhance the awareness for these precious living spaces as well as contribute to their protection and conservation on a sustainable basis.

Herewith, the interested person is given a platform with information regarding the natural resource water which could hopefully contribute to a responsible handling. For the scientific world, a knowledge pool will be created.

Also municipalities, owner of water sources and other associations are addressed. Particular activities are presented in order to find as many imitators as possible and, thus, reaching a multiplication effect.

Do you know any association or people dealing with this topic? Are you interested in a co-operation? We are looking forward to your reply! [ CONTACT ]

Prospects

In a second step, apart from serving as a mere information operator, an interactive element will be added to this system in the future. Authorised users will then have the possibility to enter data into the system like locations, information regarding particularly interesting source areas or also invitations to activities or initiatives.

As a consequence, the network of hot spots should become tighter so that the information system could be gradually used in many alpine regions.

With this interactive platform we intend to give impulses to deal with the topic, to enlarge the knowledge about the alpine water sources at a medium term and to attain something for this habitat at the long term.