Independent: Heavily polluted by communism’s industries, and with an ancient fish species in critical danger due to extensive damming and illegal fishing, the River Danube is no stranger to a turbulent time.
It meanders its way from Germany’s Black Forest through 10 countries, its vast 2,860km ending in spectacular display at Romania’s Danube Delta – a protected biosphere of exceptional biodiversity and natural beauty – where it enters the Black Sea.
But now the decades of abuse could be put to good use…