Water

Leipzig’s proactive water management policies and community-driven initiatives make it a leader in water sustainability. Whether you’re enjoying a serene lake or strolling along the riverside, your eco friendly habits can help preserve Leipzig’s water resources for future generations.

Leipziger Wasserwerke delivers tap water for 660,000 people in and around Leipzig. City is every year invest into modern technology and modern infrastructure to keep water and environment as clean as possible. Also, every school year it accepts pupils from schools to have educational lessons about water, it’s quality and cleaning.

Facts about Wasserwerke Leipzig:

• Volume delivered (million cubic meters per year): 36,9
• Extracted in Leipzig (million cubic meters per year): 125,7
• Supplied residents 708 700

Walking around the city residents and visitors of Leipzig can find 28 free drinking water fountains. Also, in the city there is six indoors and six outdoors pool which are open for public usage.

Lakes

In Leipzig and around it there is more than 20 lakes which are open for public and are safe to swim in them. Most of these lakes are connected with canals and it is easy to navigate in them. Because of these canals it is very popular to swim in them with boats or small ships. There is also option to visit beaches around those lakes or find summer house in this area.

White Elster, Pleiße, and Parthe Rivers

These rivers flow through Leipzig and are vital to its biodiversity, recreation, and local water management systems.

Because of these rivers it is popular to try to travel in these waterways. There is boats tours, canoeing. Canoeing through the Water City Leipzig is old tourism tradition of over 150 years. You can also find paddling tour on the Elbe from Belgern via Torgau to Dommitzsch.