Today, "near-natural hydraulic engineering" is an integral part of all watercourse planning. As this discipline could not be covered by purely technically trained hydraulic engineers, landscape architects were found for the planning and landscaping contractors for the construction, who have the specialist expertise for this. In such teams with a high level of interdisciplinary expertise, the goal of combining hydraulic requirements with those of water ecology and design can be achieved. This is the only way to create harmonised solutions that last.