Mosasaurus
There once was an animal: as big as a dinosaur, bloodthirsty and wild as a dinosaur, with claws and teeth like a dinosaur, a name like a dinosaur, living in the time of dinosaurs, eating other dinosaurs; and yet, it was not a dinosaur.
A water lizard it was, about eleven meters long. This monstrous creature swam near Maastricht—a Maastricht, mind you, that did not yet exist. It was the bed of a subtropical sea.
So, a non-dinosaur swam near non-Maastricht, in water that did not flow like the Meuse. And yet, the animal was named after the river.
It makes sad that dinosaurs and the Mosasaurus are extinct, but for our Maaswachters (Meuse Watchers), it’s just as well. They don’t have to fear a terrifying prehistoric monster emerging from the water, the moment they stand by the river waiting. The Maaswachters, namely, are present along the Meuse every day. Every day, someone is there by the river as part of Maaswacht: a collaboration between TAAT, SoAP, and river Meuse.