Characteristics of the riverIt is 150 metres wide and 20-25 metres deep . The water falls over white limestone into its original riverbed. There are the tributary rivers Wutach (from the east), Thur and Aare (from the west).
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The Basel Rhine Swim is famous worldwide and attracts large numbers of tourists to the border city each year. But even if it's not time for the organized Rhine Swim, you can go for a refreshing dip in the river on hot summer days.
In the Netherlands, about 5 million people get their drinking water from the Rhine. Gerards Stroomberg, of RIWA, the association that represents the interests of drinking water companies that use the Rhine as a source of water, said “What we see is that the substances we encounter are increasingly difficult to remove.
The most beautiful section of the Rhine Valley is the Upper-Middle Rhine Valley, between Koblenz and Bingen. This section of the Rhine valley is often called the Rhine Gorge or the Romantic Rhine Valley, and is known as one of Europe's most picturesque landscapes, and it's not hard to see why!
Water levels at a chokepoint on the Rhine have fallen to a seasonal low, hampering shipments of diesel inland from Europe's oil-trading hub. Europe's busiest commercial waterway is being closely watched after dryness last summer left it effectively unnavigable.