How Rotterdam's Flood Defenses Could Help Save Us All
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2021
- Climate change is increasingly threatening cities with catastrophic flooding. Many are now looking to Rotterdam, and its long history of innovation when it comes to holding water at bay.
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What I like about this video is that the younger the dutchmen get the less harsh their accent becomes.
Haha yeah i think that's true for most countries nowadays
When I or people older than me grew up, we only started learning English at a later age. Nowadays they start much earlier.
That is what I dislike.
@@doctoroesperanto3663 saluton
i'm Dutch and i hate my accent
Leave it to the Dutch, the most innovative and adaptive people on the planet. They even know how to take the little land they have and turn themselves into a World Food Exporting Powerhouse....Respect!
As a Dutchman I agree. The high rate of agricultural export is actually controversial these days: it creates local peaks of CO2 and methane, which make it hard to achieve the goals set in the Paris Agreement.
Out of curiosity how is the standard of treatment of animals? You say powerhouse but does that mean a powerhouse of poorly treated animals ?
Americans are the most innovated.
@@williammorgan7769 😂😂😂😂
@@williammorgan7769 haha, you're a funny guy.
Bit of extra info: We in the netherlands had almost the complete delta plans before 1953 but politics did not see the necessity. Please learn from that.
So you died up more than what you have now, and when the levies gave it was more than what you can handle?
@@cola98765 no, the flooded land back then was reclaimed pretty quickly
@@cola98765 it was a storm that happens one every 10.000 years. It was a pretty large storm but we could handle it with ease. The moon was way closer to earth then usual so because gravity the water was higher. And then the sun also attracted water so the water was on its highest with a rare big storm. It was really unfortunate but it that didn’t happen we wouldn’t have had the delta works that we have today
True, but if I had been a Dutch politician in 1950, I would have made the same choices. Many things were still rationed and housing was hard to come by (as it still is today, by the way).
Great to see the deltaworks, but the recent floodings in western Europe have been caused by high rainfall rather than a storm surge from the see. The reason why there were no Dutch casualties but sadly there were in Germany and Belgium is largely because of the "ruimte voor de rivier", or room for the river program. Which focuses on the rivers inland rather than the delta works. It is worth a video on its own imo
Certainly. Giving a river additional room that it can flood into is just genius, yet it shouldn't take a highly educated engineer to see that
Was amazing learning about ‘ruimte voor de rivier’ at school, so in depth. Also about how to green a city, couldve been much more detailed
A big difference is also that the regions in Germany and Belgium are more mountainous. At the river Ahr it was hardly possible to give the river more room. The only possibilty would be to remove houses or whole villages. Along the bigger rivers within Germany live Elbe or Rhine you have also some extensives polders due to the fact that the landscape, especially in the north, is flatter.
Yea, I also wanted to comment this. They are all talking about flood prevention near the coast but there is a big diffrence between that and inland flooding. Not that long ago we actually got some pretty bad floods inland. Luckily, as mentioned, they were way less severe then the ones in Belgium and Germany because the room for the river project. Still a lot of people had to get evacuated. I luckily live on a hill but a lot of other people in my city had to leave their homes. The sad part was that their were actually burglers taking advantage of the situation and they robbed those abandoned homes.
Helemaal mee eens
But in US, there are states which allow developers and residents to build houses on the flood plains.
I am just shoced and surprsied with US as a not US based human it baffles me how US should have been the leader of all of this given their position.
Happens in for instance Belgium too. Such housing developments are timebombs. It will go wrong, might be next year or ten years from now.
@@Thebreakdownshow1 The US barely floods, only recently. The US plays on easy mode concerning their geographic position. In the second half of the 1900's Americans pioneered the computer, the Dutch are master engineers.
it is more or less subsidized by the Federal Government via the national flood insurance program (NFIP).
Capitalism rules the US, that's why.
Finally, a youtube video got the percentage 'below sea level' as opposed to 'flood prone' land right
Hungarian script?
@@jeroenstrompf5064 anglo-saxon runes
Happily living on the seafloor.
You should try it ones.
Rotterdam is truly a wonderful city, I really enjoyed my time there, and the port absolutely blew my mind, the Dutch are some very ingenious people!
I love the optimism that all of the people interviewed had. There may be big problems that lay ahead of us, but we can and will find solutions for all of them.
Yes plant more trees.
They hold water and co2
"Maybe someday we'll all live in floating houses"
Hmmm yes, absolutely EVERYONE
People living in the mountains: "Rising what...?"
Unless the climate will get hotter and most water will be so scarce like in california where they are running out of water and the the state is getting hotter
People on Mars: What flooding? We have to wear a pressurized suit when we go outside.
The Dakpark is so beautiful! Many cultures strive for water features in their homes, and yet they designed it right into their environment instead of just installing a fountain.
The floating houses are neat. Very simple concept put into place. Love it.
Thanks~~~~
I could also see it being used on land. Like if you live somewhere that's prone to flooding when it does flood your house can just float.
Dutch engineering at its best!
I saw a film about this when I was a kid. It was called Waterworld.
0:41 "But there is one place where it's possible to imagine a very different future."
**The Blue Danube starts playing**
Me: "Vienna?"
Even we (the dutch) will hit a tipping point the coming century. We will have to ask ourselfs the question: In how deep a bowl do we want to live?
The Netherlands is very fortunate in that it can afford to make these types of investments in climate resilience. Other less wealthy countries will be at the mercy of extreme weather events, with no defenses.
Take the L
Yeah, because most less wealthy countries are already drowning in their own corruption....
@@Telluwide Ah, yes. Because there’s no corruption in the wealthy countries, and our governments don’t use erroneous pseudo-economics to justify failing to spend money to protect their citizens.
Yes and no. In that; it's not optional. It's build or drown. Easy choice.
@@Telluwide They're being corrupted by western companies like shell
Proud to live in Rotterdam!
If climate change is inevitable, we can still manage to live with it. In this video, the Dutch experience and knowledge probably could help saving many lives around the world in the future.
Great video, Bloomberg. Very well explained. Greetings from a Rotterdammer.
' No such thing as no-can-do ' 🇳🇱
can't wait for floating polder
I see what you did there 😎
The area north of Amsterdam indeed is floating on the water. So, no news there.
The rich countries will obviously be fine post climate change, it's the countries that have had the least to do with climate change that'll pay the most. Think of the people of Maldives for example
California is on fire and doesn't seem to be fine. It seems climate change will hit everyone.
@@williamdrijver4141 yeah, but we can count the us to the third world countries
The Maldives have contributed their share in climate change.
You can't cater for all those tourists without producing a lot of CO2.
@@Chris-it4fe Or maybe bush fires are common in climates similar to California's?
Maybe?
Such in Australia?
An excellent documentary, thank you.
4:31 Why does the proposed NYC barrier look like Americans *tried* to copy the Dutch... and just failed?
Yeah, same in Venice. Millions spend on a laughable barrier and still the water runs into the street during floods.
Rain
Well since NYC used to New Amsterdam before the Dutch sold it to the british, its kind of poetic that they would need dutch systems to protect it . But the main reason it looks different is just because of the geography around the city and the water flow.
@@KootFloris in fairness Venice had the option to use Dutch engineering but they went with the much cheaper options
@@nickspallone8493 I was there when the result happened, speedboats stuck in streets that should be dry. ;)
The most beautiful city in the world !!!
They always forget the first barier of the Deltaworks in the " Hollandse IJssel" build in 1958 near Krimpen aan den IJssel .
The floating houses are quite a cute idea. I like them
Prachtig, dit maakt me wel een beetje trots
"flood defense save us all" * stares at mountains out my window at 5,000ft above sea level *
We all need to learn from them.
“Just as baffled as the rest of us about climate change”
All environmentalists: Am i a joke to you?!
Yea pffft. Imagine that hey?
LOL, There are two kinds of humans on this planet the ones that are smart and then some that are dumb. Thats the only way I have been able to comprehend the nay sayers.
@Parell Quest earlier
I have so much respect for the Dutch.
rotterdam is dope. so modern compared to it's brother city (amsterdam). it's a great contrast.
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Yeah, the reason it is more modern is not so dope, unfortunately.
Because it was bombed in WW2 unfortunately…
Amsterdam is culturally rich, wealthy and modern. Rotterdam the rich and wealthy in everything else.
(Rotterdam was bombed by the nazis and totally leveled. When they rebuilt it was rebuilt with some planning, unlike thousand years old Amsterdam)
Thank u all very much
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
Was looking for this
Nice vlogg hope it will applicable in my country 🇵🇭🥰
I am SO Glad I happened on This Video!!! BRILLIANT Ideas
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Would LOVE to See More of This Kind if Content.
Warmly,
Lay Chaplain Kelly Chase
1:02 very strange to look at an youtube video and see the name of the tiny unknown place you grew up in! (Sint Maartensdijk)
Just a little reminder: while starting to think and act for a better life with climate change, don't forget to also try to limit its effects as of today
climate change is a fairy tale
Shoutout to Koos for speaking English so well
Stay in touch with the Dutch
Amazing!!!!
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Mexico City could use some water storage...
I would love to go on a date with you... and talk science !
This is so cool
We need to live in balance with nature more and fight to control and manipulate it less.
I used to ride my bike past this on my way to the hook of holland always wondered what it was
‘Haak van Holland’
@@tixsz576 Hoek van Holland?
8:20 floating homes !
"Nobody seems to know what to do about this problem" maybe start by addressing climate change?
"what is climate change?" Said the denier. As its easier to look the other way.
that only works if everyone plays ball, and we all know the rich would burn this planet to make a quick buck, so long as the planet doesn't die in their life time.
so the next best thing is to prepare for the worst.
There's not much we can do as long as capitalists still run the world.
@@bastiaan4129 I agree the society and our political structure needs a shift.
We should but even if we address I now we will have to live with the consequences of our actions for centuries to come.
The effects of Climate change won't just magically disappear, it will take hundreds of years if not thousands to revert back. We can now only mitigate how bad it's gonna be and right now we're going full steam ahead to the worst case scenario.
I hope Rotterdam will still be here in the next centuries. The Dutch love their country that's why they built this huge delta arms because it would have been super lazy and easier to just move to another country instead of actually fixing the problem.
99 downvotes from our friends in Amsterdam
It is becoming more common to deal with temporary flooding greater than 3m
Where I lived: a series of flood protection protect the city, and allow the area beyond to become flooded.
As the spring flood levels increase,
so do the series of flood protection.
This does have limits, and the entire area is destined to become a lake greater than all of Germany.
-- A delta inlet of the Hudson bay !
While huge, the Hudson Bay can only allow a specific amount of water to enter the Ocean.
As more water drains into the Bay, the higher the Bay will become.
The Bay is destined to become an enormous inland sea, 100's of meters above the Ocean.
-- Huge high pressure Channels, entering from the land
-- Outlets to the ocean, that are literally walls of flowing water
Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland are probably the perfect countries on this planet.
Seems like an odd group of countries. I agree those are all great but there's also Finland, Denmark and Norway all right in that region. While we're at it let's just through the rest of Europe in there as well. And Canada and the US as well as New Zealand and Australia are great also-
@@Bossabot nop Canad, USA, Australia and New Zealand are not perfect. I've studied and lived in the US.
It's far from perfect. Finland has high suicide rates. Denmark has being unceasingly right wing anti migrant and New Zealand is a first world country whose primary export is meat and dairy products.
Australia is too much dependant on mining and fossil fuel export with little to no innovation.
@@truethat7681 Ah I see so we are ignoring the fact that the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland wouldn't be able to defend themselves, let alone other countries in the case of a war? Germany is one of the safest countries to live and they have a great quality of life.
Also I would argue that it's unfair to go to one location in the US and assume that the rest is the same. Effectively it's more of a Unified Federation, with each state and city having vastly different experiences.
Sweden has the highest rapes per capita in Europe
It isnt perfect, but the netherlands is among the best places to be at in this day and age
Don't be surprised when the Dutch build the first floating port city in 30 to 40 years. The netherlands is where many people live below sea level and we keep it dry aside from lot's of rain fall.
Floating houses, floating cities. Welcome to Waterworld...
Southern coast?
There are floating houses throughout the Netherlands
Sustainable Infrastructure
Florida take notes!
quick question, are you allowed to swim in the water squares? i realize it would probably be pretty cold, but if you wanted to, would you be allowed?
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As far as I know it is not illegal. Just dirty and cold and usually in the wrong season to make swimming fun (air too cold).
It's probably filthy with all kinds of grease, desease and trash flushed in from the rest of the city. But afaik it is not strictly illegal to swim there if you wanted to. Alternatively you can just cycle for ~15 mins to one of the public swimming pools or lakes nearby
i wouldn't reccomend it but i don't think it is illegal
Whenever I hear Rotterdam I think of the Netflix show: How to sell drugs (fast).
There will always be a way around.
floating home? how about underwater home?
Oh the hubris. I am ready to bet everything i own, the water will win! How can it not😂
aikido!
cool
Great video. But I do not like the idea of a waterpark though. Stagnant water in the city could be the source of waterborne diseases.
It's the Netherlands, there's ponds in every corner. Dig 2m down and you'll have groundwater fill the hole. Also I can imagine that the water will flow progressively since the land is dual use
It may not be applicable everywhere, but the Netherlands has rain showers every other day, so all that water is refreshed before you know it. It is hardly stagnant.
Uhm, The Netherlands is one huge pool. We have water all over the place. Also the waterpark will be refreshed for sure.
The greater concept of this is that we have thousands of these places storing water. Some underground, some ponds, some canals, parks, flooding regions etc etc. They all act together as a buffer so that the peak load on sewage systems is drawn out over a longer period.
When new areas are build its mendatory for constructors to build these places (ponds/lakes etc). Since the installed roads will transfer water much faster to regular drainage/sewage systems than the plants that were there before causing massive spikes in peak load.
waterparks are not supposed to always be filled with water, they take the excess rain water which the ground can't take. within 2 days without rain its dry and only needs a little cleaning
The USA wasted 2000 billion dollars on the war in Afghanistan alone. Whilst having below par health care, infrastructure and flood defences. Very poor political choices were made imo.
$2000 billion = $2 trillion
It makes little sense to me to mix different kinds of floods (precipation, riverdelta, sea) in a single documentary.
It's like putting ice berg collisions and snow avalanches in a single documentary because they both involve impacts with frozen water.
Why not, all three cause floods (topc of the video) and even can occur at the same time.
Precipitation leads to river flooding, and sea flooding wouldn't be a big issue if it wouldn't come up the rivers. In the end, only river flooding matters, because that is where the people live.
So, that's why they were called the nether-land.
Jup! Since the Middle Ages this area was known as the Low Countries, with parts of Belgium and Germany included.
i like this they are just building rather than protesting , complaining and stuff . china did this too when international community denied them on ISS now they are building their own
more than half of the netherlands lays below the sea level
Rich countries will protect itself from water.. Poor countries who can't protect their lands will eventually migrate to rich countries..
IT'S HIGH TIME WE FOCUS ON CLIMATE CHANGE.
the Dutch are smart
New Yorkers can kiss goodbye to such project. US-style democracy just isn't condusive to building large scale infrastructure that will take years to finish. Look, such democracy must have been so bankable and potent panacea to just about every problem including flooding and Covid-19 handling, 😂.
Did anyone notice all the volcanos and earthquakes were having?
Seismic activity has nothing to do with climate change
@@crazyturtle6826 the science isn’t sure about that.
Why did you make it yellow?
Yoo some of these shots are taken in my village, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, this village has the lowest point of west europe
1:08 The flood defenses weren't built because of climate change, but because of a strong storm in 1953 that killed thousands. These devastating floods have been happening for centuries, but only recently did the technology become available to do something against it.
What can Bangladesh do? It has a coastline many times bigger, but a budget many times smaller.
That is a very complicated question bangladesh has a very broken up coast line their surface area is huge.
Most of the solution lies in stationary solutions, the movable solutions are only required at specific locations, Sure it costs money, but look at Ireland, once very poor, now amongst the richest in the world. All you need is a smart government that knows how to plan ahead.
@@vincenzodigrande2070 I agree that is true a movable solution isn't always necessary. Unless there is ship traffic.
@@Thebreakdownshow1 lots of ship traffic in BD, particularly in the east of the country going in and out of Chittagong. I think the only way for them to afford it would be to become a state of India. The issue will have an impact on India regardless, and it might take their budget to fix the problem.
They should control their population growth first. With too many people problems just keep getting bigger.
I don't get how a raise park helps store rain water. The water would run of more, than if the park were flat.
Looking at the footage, I doubt making the whole area flat was an option, as there is a notable height difference between the buildings on top and the road at the lower end. But to answer your question, it's an exceptional amount of green they have in that park. People often underestimate just how much water foliage can hold on to. It lets water infiltrate into the ground, and by slowing down the waterflow it gives the drainage & sewage systems more time to let the excess water flow away.
We Dutch say yes we can
the water square looks stagnant and nasty
All of us might be a bit presumptuous, the Netherlands is a very wealthy nation with a history of dealing with water. Not all nations around the world have the fund, knowledge or experience necessary to build such massive water defence works.
well the netherlands is exporting their knowledge and experience with the rest of the world, the only problem for alot of countries is either funding or support from the people
Keep in mind that for high-value densely populated coastal regions, the cost of flooding may be much, *much* greater than the cost of building water defenses.
@@MatthijsvanDuin Exactly, situation require a solution befitting their context. But the video seems to claim that this one highly engineered solution would solve flooding virtually everywhere and that’s just dangerously optimistic.
That's why you contact dutch companies. Dubai did this, even though it might not be something to be proud of, the Dutch handled all of the huge water projects in Dubai
ONS ORANJE VOOR ALTIJD!!!!!
for most of the world it will be a gradual retreat from the rising seas
I’m not an engineer or anything at all but I’m a little confused on how a gate that has so many openings can keep water out?? Like the gate thing to keep water out is like an open gate lol, I’m confused but eh whatever works💀
You close it
The trick is not to built something fully watertight, impossible indeed, but it should slow down the influx enough to survive the highwater stormsurge.
Which one? The gate at 3:43 for example is not the grid, the gate is the solid bit at the end.
the gates close when there is a storm comming
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Increadible solutions for temporary conditions
Far insufficent for daily confitions !
Most promising is the floating of the emtite country !
Although impressive, these have a long way to go !
A 2m imcrease of ocean levels, is the averaged amount. This is not the mew tide & storm levels.
What about mosquitos, in the water squares?
We have mosquitoes but not an excessive amount (not actual data just my experience) most of these places are pretty far from city’s and it’s decently cold most of the year.
@@un4893 And the water changes often, it rains a lot.
*kuch, kuch, G E K O L O N I S E E R D ! *
Ge-Ge-Ge-G... Gekoloniseerd!
Rotterdam!!!
It's all great but floating houses would need constant maintenance since they are basically ships. Imagine having to paint your roads every 6 months. Just saying that we will have floating houses in the future is no way out. Build an earth wall around the country and start now. Use machines or labor make it a 500 year project to fit in the budget but please don't use metal for houses. Metal which is expensive, needs expensive chemical treatment and needs additional materials on top of it for use in houses.
Floating houses could be perfect for places like California where there's also a lot of earthquakes.
The water acts as a shock absorber, so you're basically immune to earthquakes.
Those pillars will still be attached to the ground shaking up the house. At least you're safe jumping in the water in an earthquake.
@@EdoTyran Not really because there is a lot of slack between the pillars and the connections.
This is done intentionally so that the house has some moving room. This is especially helpful with waves
How to turn your house into swimming pools
fery goed dutch accant
In the US we need to find a way to reroute water to drought proned areas
This is why I still see MAJOR faith in the canal networks. Alan Fisher made a video on this where the canals were filled in by overpasses for motorways, and virtually abandoned. The great thing about canals is we will still find proper solutions to make them functional for us, without needing to worry as much as to whether they take away from our landscape.
Use solar or nuclear power to turn salt water into fresh water and pump it to Arizona for instance. Expensive, but apart from evacuating people I don't see many other options?
The massive infrastructure you saw in this clip was a defence against salty water. Who needs that ?
Just don't build on flood plains, don't build in deserts, don't build in tornado prone areas and don't build in forest fire prone areas. It's that simple.
@@wp12mv Ok, just include earthquake prone areas now and the US would be left with about 10 states at most.
I am glad that these ideas are trying to help solve a problem that has become complex overtime regarding Climate change.
I have a problem with the designs though.
I am no expert, but if a storm flooded to the point where it killed at least 2,000 people and your living below sea level, I think you will need to create a d and water way paths to redirect the surge of water.
Stopping the storm surge is great, but the water levels are still going to rise.
I understand the dutch are still experimenting, but they are going to have to assume and should design based on the worst case scenario of flooding.
Rest assured, the Dutch are the true experts in this sport, they’ve been at it for a millennium already and managed not only to survive but to thrive as well.
Dutch are already ahead of you!! A lot of lowlying (farm)lands have been bought out by our government, so that the inhabitants in that specific area could move elsewhere, and have dedicated these area's to be the first to flood (on purpose) after a storm. It has been called moving with the flow of nature, instead of defending against it.
Was this part of Trump's wall plan?
Yes to protect all the waters coming from Mexico.
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