Abstract
The paper aims to examine the transformation processes of the mining landscape in the North Bohemian Basin (especially the area around towns Most, Duchcov and Bílina) into "aquatic" landscape, that is already emerging in the area due to hydric reclamation. The amount of hydric reclamation is increasing, and by mid-century, this area is supposed to be transformed in the landscape of lakes and become a tourist-sought-after area.
Hydric reclamations are associated with semantic transformation of the landscape, transformation that is used by mining companies. Can it be, that the proclaimed transformation into an attractive water landscape of the future might serve as a legitimization of the current mining activity in the area? How is the narrative of future "aquatic" landscape constructed and produced? Whom does it aim at? The paper is grounded in my PhD research project in the area.